Very few of my runs are "flawless." I do have screw ups just like anyone else, but at last weekend's Canadian Nationals I had a lulu of a fiasco, the likes of which I have not experienced in a while. Encore and I are pretty [...]
Back in November of last year, I wrote about how I felt the need to work on my dog's Gambling Skills. The post was called "Getting Old Fashioned". My winter project was to grow my dog's skills so that the Gamblers class was not going [...]
Well the 9th Canadian National Agility Championships have been put to bed. No I did not "win" the overall championship, but I did have a great weekend. The event was really well run, the organizers thought of just about everything, right down to having packages [...]
This morning we head up to Ottawa for the Canadian National Agility Championships. This would be the ninth year for this event. It is different than any other National Championship that I am aware of, not only in that consistency is crucial, but also the [...]
Yesterday I started explaining my thoughts on the evolution of ourselves as competitors. Remember Stage one was the "Romance Stage" where ignorance is bliss and we get extreme joy just watching our dog being able to do a sequence of 2 or 3 jumps in [...]
There was discussion this week on one of the agility lists about running agility "just for fun" rather than being competitive about it. It reminded me of a lecture I include when doing Mental Prep for Sport workshops. It is about each of our own individual evolution [...]
One of last week's blog posted caused a bit of a stir amoungst some of you so I will deal with a couple of comments that were made. From Nelci AWESOME!! Love the picture of Feature on the Teeter. I do have some [...]
I felt a little badly that my last post was all about Encore while Feature had a great weekend at Canada Cup herself. So to alleviate some guilt, I had to post Feature's run for you all as well. Just so you know this isn't [...]
I don't have a lot of time today, tons to do before Tuesday, but I had to post this run from the weekend. Canada Cup was again fantastic. My dogs were amazing, as a handler, I let them down in the early rounds but we [...]
I am sitting here under the golden arches of McDonalds getting an internet connection before the trial starts this morning. I had an early morning because I woke up thinking about some smut I heard last night about Greg Derrett and myself (not romantically, ewwwwwweeee, [...]
Well all of my appliances for the new house arrived yesterday. Way exciting. However my excitement gave John the “great” idea that since my birthday is at the end of July, this could work as my present from him! As nice as it is to [...]
Irritation is motivation. Some of you may have heard me say this before. When you are really irritated by something you will take action to change it. Those of you that are overweight right now are that way because it doesn't bug you enough. When [...]
