Middlesbrough Flyball
The Crazy Cannons always put on a good tournament but we’re not usually very successful! Kim has a 2nd rosette from about 2 years ago and that’s it, which is a shame because the pink and black rosettes look very swish! We got our act together this year and the Owlers had a fantastic day. It definitely helped that unlike the rest of the country, we were all absolutely frozen and never saw any sunlight. Mollie and Dylan were very appreciative!
Mollie was in Division 7, back with her old team Night Owlers. They came 2nd in the end and had a great day’s racing, and finally broke the magic 22 seconds to hit 21.73 — when I was handling! My mum slipped and hurt her knee, and as she was due to run Murphy in the second half of Div 1 later, I said I’d run Mollie for the final 3 races. Mollie also picked up her Graduate award, in a lovely frame that Jane organised. Thank you guys!
Kim was running in Div 4 with her normal team, but down to 4 dogs and with a bit of a switched round line-up! We had Jet down from Barneys and Lolly up from Nights, and with old pro’s Kim and Buffy. They all ran really well, 13″ jumps all day and Kim was so consistent! I’m very proud of her, she ran just under 5 seconds all day in a 7 team division. We ran around 20 seconds all day so plenty of points, about 350-400 I think, which is a nice addition to our goal this year to reach 10,000 points. Sadly I think we’re losing speedy Jet to become a permanent Barney addition, although we do get gorgeous Brooke in the swap so not too bad!
Dylan was running in Starters again, and his Little Owlers team were brilliant. Dylan’s box was still pretty bad but he didn’t make any serious mistakes and we did get a couple of practise runs with the cone in and showed everyone what a cracking turn he can have! His turn makes all the difference, I think if we can get his turn sorted he’ll be running sub-5 second times which will suit him nicely. Just one problem – Dylan is just like his dad and likes running as lead dog, I think someone should tell him that I can’t do the lights! He really shifted up a gear running first, less for him to think about and he focussed a lot faster. We definitely had an improvement since last time though, and he kept going consistently all day, just a bit quicker when he was lead dog. I’m more concerned about my dogs running consistent times than throwing up an odd faster one, it plays havoc with seed times and means they can’t settle in a team properly. I’d be thrilled if Dylan somehow pulled off a 4.3 but it would hardly be very good for whatever team he was in! I think the team ran a 23.?? in the end, so not too bad considering we weren’t running changeovers or starts!
I was also scribing for Barneys so didn’t get a moment’s rest all day, and I mean that quite literally! When I was actually running a dog I was helping with one of the other teams, so I was absolutely exhausted when we got back last night. I wasn’t the only one either, as mum normally just has Mollie to run and then helps out, but she had the additional task yesterday of running Brooke and Murphy! James is off on his stag weekend and mum started off running Brooke for the first couple of races, and then swapped to running Murphy. Her first time running either dog and in Div 1, and her changeovers were absolutely perfect!
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Cat
Thank you for that comment! I’ll reply here..
I used to be able to do sit ups really well and it did pay off.. but then lost it. When I started to do them again I was getting neck pain, I knew that it was because I wasn’t doing it right so when I researched it the way the internet then told me to do it didn’t make a difference. It said to hold onto your ears or cross your hands accross your chest.. the ears thing hurt my neck, and then the across the chest thing just made my legs go up automatically. My friend told me to slip your feet under the sofa to stop them going up but I then found myself using my legs to pull me up rather than my stomach. Not sure if that makes sense, but rant over lol!
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Vicki aka Giruff
way to go Dylan!
I always find that I compare Inca to Pip in training, and forget how long it took me to get that far with Pip. I guess I’ll be going through that all again now 😉
Are you doing newark?
Leanne
I’m constantly comparing the two, but they’re such complete opposites I probably shouldn’t! Dylan is doing very well, I do have a tendency to forget what a complete nutter Kim was as a 2 year old.
We’re not doing Newark – it’s a bit far for us, although we sometimes pop down for the indoor tournaments in winter. I think we’re at Tabley next at the end of the month.