Very quick summary. QQ for Cedar and I. For some reason I am not remembering the jumpers course at all because standard is ingrained in my brain because it was a tricky, trappy, awkward course.
Anyway, I give it to Carol and Libby, they made that course (excellent standard) look the smoothest of anybody else out there today (the 20 inchers were a horrible mess) - I was not brave enough to run the one stretch of 4 jumps as a serpentine though they should have been, but I was brave enough to do a blind cross which did not involve a tunnel for the first time at a trial, it wasn't perfect but at least I tried it and I know my tiny mistake (which was not straightening out enough after the blind cross). The sequence after the weaves was awkward, weave, triple forward to an angled jump so your dog is jumping away from you, and then 180 back in the handlers direction, and then into tunnel - I did get a few nice comments from people saying I had a nice decel queue there ..... which I silently had to laugh to myself as decel is a weakness of mine and I only remembered just in time to decelerate at the correct place.
So 24 points for use which brings up our Nationals tally to 190 and 6 QQs. Agility season is only just really starting for us this year, that was our 11th or 12th day trialing for Nationals, so the results aren't horrible, but we are going to kick the schedule up the rest of the year to make the 210 points we still need (but not totally out of control, Cedar is skipping on some of the days I have entered Zola in ........ and no Rochester, or Lake Elmo for us, heat is not our friend.
