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Friday 7 October 2011

Ahead of plan

The last month has been very relaxed Agility wise. After the busy month of August, Jude's injury in the GB team qualifiers meant no training prep work for the FCI agility WC this weekend (good luck to all my team mates).

We spent a fantastic week in Jersey having a holiday and doing some judging. Thanks to everyone in Jersey for making our stay so welcome, we didn't want to come home!

So after an easy month, we ventured 'up north' last weekend to do the shows in Middlesborough. The Saturday was an absolute scorcher, a beautiful day to start JD's G4 career.

My plan for 2011 had been to win out of G3 by end of August (achieved) and then work through G4, concentrating on Jumping ready for show season next year. Well plan didn't quite work and we won our first G4 Agility. Now I am very pleased and proud with this, the course was not simple (see above) and our contacts and FX's were spot on, but it does change our winter plan.

Theoretically it changes nothing with JD (he can't age faster and there is no shop to 'buy' experience) but competition wise, there is going to be more pressure as the courses will be harder. We struggled at the weekend in the combined 4 - 7 and at G5 we will have more combined courses with the upper levels. To compete in G5+ we need to have better turns in tighter (jump) configurations.

So my winter training plan just incorporated a few more things!




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