Quick Update After Standard Cuz it's Dinnertime!

We are done with the warm up run in European Standard- Black Dog went first and went clean. She had excellent response and even kind of a stay at the start. Wow!! One scary LOOK at the tire on the way out after the Aframe but that was it!

White Dog was clean too, she got her Aframe contact! That in itself made it a great run.

THE Dog was a good girl, she did have one teensy refusal from 4 to 5 (the 180 turn)- I KNEW she would assume wrap/Threadle on 4, and sure enough! Other than that she was fast the rest of the run, hit her contacts, and did the weaves with no complaint (and, dare I say, with speed even?).

Obviously we aren't able to watch everyone we would like, but the runs we saw from fellow MNers were good too. Overall from Group B outside of MN folks, the course took quite a few victims. Many off courses into the tunnel after the dogwalk, and the chute to tire-serpentine also was tricky. Can't say that Shocked me but I didn't expect the dogwalk to jump ("NO NOT THE TUNNEL!!!") to get so many dogs!! We decided that it was everyones' 'running dogwalk' and that they hadn't gotten to the turn portion yet.

Team Gamblers tomorrow bright and early! Yay!

Cynosport Evil #1, Day 1- aka the day something happens

European Standard

We got to do something finally!! Yay check in! It has never been so fun to set up or stand in line for red wristbands/banes of existence as you must not lose yet must take off cuz they are dorky.

We checked out the rings- today ours will be a pretty paisley colored ring with Easter appropriate equipment. White Dog and the Dog like this. Glad we are not in the main arena for this tight course as that equipment is HUGE. I would lose track of the Dog behind a wing. Plus it would feel like I'm tiny like the Indian in the Indian in the Cupboard.

Alright so just two hours until more activity. I'm going to feed the Dog candy corn until then so she will like me and listen up later. Or barf up. That's the thing about the Nationals- you never know WHAT will happen!

And I already lost my wristband. Nuts!

UPDATE: 38.74 with one refusal