Jacked up on Mountain Dew, Let's Rip!

Well, agility season has kicked off with a bang. With oh so few training sessions and no expectations for success (personal issue) we were headed to our first Agility Trial. I can't tell you how nervous I was having this furry firecracker all jacked up on Mountain Dew and just revving at the start line waiting for the release command. As expected the release command was about two seconds longer than she was ready to wait. Off to the races we went.......

Tunnelers and Touch & Go's were the two courses of choice for the two day event and as usual in any first trial the novice entries run last. When I say last I mean in total darkness at the end of the day. No worries with this, as the run in the dark was her best of the day. We finished the course with only 30 faults (darkness was our friend) and a snails pace of 4.09 YPS. Gabby tried to shave off a few seconds by vaulting off the peak of the down side dog walk contact but that only gave us the coveted 20 point penalty.

Well back to the drawing board to work on those problem areas. Of course that's what training sessions are for, right? Fix the issues found during the trial day runs and come back and do it all over again expecting a different conclusion. This sure sounds vaguely like the definition of insanity.