Feels like spring. Looks like spring. Yes, finally the week
has come. A time of peace, rest, sleep, and an over-dose on agility. Spring
Break. Grateful to have such a long week off, although I feel going back will
be even harder after ten days of bliss. Regardless, this week of agility has
already proven priceless. Whimzy has defiantly needed some extra work. A week
off while I was at Nationals did her absolutely no good haha. Fortunately after
a rather awful training session, in which nothing was nice, successful, or even
useful to learn from, I did manage to come to a conclusion. Whimzy is an open
dog in the ring. Slightly more advanced outside of it of course. But if all I
really want to accomplish now is open Qs, why am I training
excellent sequences? Answer: I shouldn’t be. Thus the conclusion was to layoff on the
technical courses and just run nice, easy, flowy open courses with basic to
advanced challenges. It’s hard to remember that going slow sometimes gets you
the further faster.
HAPPY
In addition to Whimzy progress, Jenna has been doing
fabulous. I know shocker right? Little princess has been doing everything
right, shame about the handler really. Although I would like to think I’m
improving too. I felt a little bit rusty
on international sequences heading into this spring, but wow did we get into
our groove fast. Jenna feels amazing. Tonight in particular with her was just marvelous.
Not a foot out of place, can I really ask for more? Handler goal: mental preparation.
Still lacking slightly in that department, but isn’t the first step to getting
better admitting you have a problem? Admitted, and currently being “healed”.
Tryouts in: 23 days
:-) hi!
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