I do like this show. I say this every year and it continues being true.<\/p>\n
All the courses this weekend were … easy though, except the C6-7 Agility. They all presented minor challenges but nothing really testing. That was sort of disappointing, but I don’t want to complain too much in case I get really hard courses next time!<\/p>\n
We went clear in the C5-7 Jumping, which placed to 20th. We did not place. The winner was 25s and Dylan was 30.55s. Eh. There was a section which required three very tight turns in a small space, the kind that Dylan just isn’t suited to. The course as a whole was tightly spaced, so not really Dyl’s cup of tea. His jumping was somewhat clean, but there were a few really stuttering moments. He was keen though, and it just reminded me of uncomfortable Dylan from last year. Now I’m concerned about injuries.<\/p>\n
G6-7 Agility had a tricky entry into 9 weaves out of a box of jumps, but other than that, not a problem. Dylan was fine with his dogwalk this week but not<\/em> his seesaw, but we have had issues with the aluminium seesaw before. We got E’d in the box of jumps (I hate boxes with Dyl, this has been a recurring theme for 4yrs), and then Dylan popped the 9 weaves. Oh well … he wasn’t fast or confident on anything other than his dogwalk and Aframe, which is at least a refreshing change from his usual not-fast or -confident equipment.<\/p>\n C6-7 Agility was actually a fun course, and Dylan set off really well. And then he was terrible, and then got E’d, so we just finished quietly and I hoped no-one was watching. I thought when he came out of the ring that he looked slightly off on his right hind, but he trotted out normally a second later.<\/p>\n Hannah Grantham sets really nice courses, but her G6-7 Jumping was really easy (apart from 9 weaves again. I should actually train those, if it’s going to be a thing next year). I walked it and felt sad; it was the kind of course that Dylan and I usually like, all open spaces and flowing lines. I went home and didn’t run it.<\/p>\n Next stop for Dylan: video all training on Tuesday to confirm it’s an injury and\/or tweak, then an appointment with the chiropractor (or possibly physiotherapist, looking into this), and rest over Christmas. Then … we’ll see. If he needs chiro (or physio?) treatment then it suggests he needs looking at every 6 months, which worries me. Is it something caused by agility (or flyball)? How can I tell? If it is caused by agility or flyball, then I want to make it so that isn’t happening. Is it the way he’s trained? Is it the equipment itself? Is it just the general physical stress of repeated running\/jumping\/twisting with a body that isn’t made for it? Is it something I can control and change? (Welcome to just a sample of the questions constantly running through my mind before\/after every run we do when Dyl looks “off”.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I do like this show. I say this every year and it continues being true. All the courses this weekend were … easy though, except the C6-7 Agility. They all presented minor challenges but nothing really testing. That was sort of disappointing, but I don’t want to complain too much in case I get really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-dylan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-Gz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}