Tag: fitness
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Run & Training
I have discovered a slight flaw in my well-considered fitness and conditioning plan, in that Kim is too smart for her own good. She now refuses to run for the first toy now, and will only run for the second, meaning Mollie is doing twice as much work. I probably should have seen that one…
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Summer
My pledge to try and blog more often is currently not really working out. I do have the very good excuse, like the rest of the country, that there has been the warm, hazy hint of summer around and we’ve been basking in what might be the only sun we see all year. We seem…
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Fitness and Conditioning
There was a brief discussion at the seminar regarding conditioning and fitness, although it wasn’t a feature. It did get me thinking though! One of the points emphasised is that flyball practice shouldn’t be fitness training, it should be purely about training the dogs to flyball. I’m not sure I entirely agree with that; I…
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Honley Woods
I shouldn’t have even bothered taking my camera; the lighting was awful! Overcast skies + twilight = not good for photos of moving dogs. Still, look at Mollie’s smiley face! [singlepic id=153 w=320 h=240 float=center] Dylan is getting really irritating on walks, I keep wanting to smack him round the head! He is generally pretty…
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Doncaster Flyball
This tournament was a bit of a upside/downside; our dogs all ran really well, but it was almost embarrassing how unfit they are! Kim and Mollie’s team went from running 20.86 in their third leg race (um, seeded on 21.60, sorry about that Division 6!) to barely getting under 22s in their afternoon races. Same…