08/11/2024
Seriously, I’m just blown away by this boy! My approach to competing is always expect that you do your best and where ever that lands us, be thankful! Now that doesn’t mean I’m not competitive, it means I recognize that once we are on that dock, I have a part but without him, there is no game to play, no competition without the one that does the real work and is the true competitor! I look how we compete by setting individual goals, ones that may have to do with being connected/ in sync, with stride or placement, with timing things right on and off the dock, and with me doing my part with reaction time……….
So for SPEED RETRIEVE today I had these goals:
1. HOLD ON! 😉
2. Get a good set in the box. With Trexx there is a feeling when we have this and we did today!!
3. Count the lights but don’t push to hard the first run so we have a score. Second run push hard!
4. Shooting for a run of 5.4 seconds….. and that asking for a pretty slim margin of error with reaction and a good swim but that was a goal.
RUN 1: , the crowd was crazy and so was Trexx but he was ready and set up in the back or the box without and wrestling holds to make sure I didn’t lose him. 😉🤣. Was able to set him up in our normal hold and when I felt him locked in, I nodded…….. red, yellow, green GOOOOO!
The boy flew out of my hands like rocket, hit the end of the dock and a nice straight swim….
“Reaction time .14x and swim time 5.341!!”
HOLY CRAP! Well we hit the goal so next run was time for me to push my part, get that better reaction time!
RUN 2: Trexx was fired up! We set up, nod for the lights, deep breath and count……. GOOOOOO!
“Reaction time .020 and run time 5.405!!!
Happy dance for my little man, I’m so proud!
And I have to say I was so thrilled to be followed in line by a favorite team of Cindy Ferguson and HIT! Their first run Cindy ran a .33x rt with a 5.6xx but I knew they would be coming back with something special run 2! Trexx and I stood near the dock screaming and cheering and when Hit left the dock the jump was BIG and it was one of those you can tell was fast and so good!!!! We were thrilled for then when we heard 4.8xx seconds!!! Way to go HIT
What an incredible round of SPEED! ❤️❤️❤️
Congrats to Cindy and Hit and to all the incredible competitors that ran today!!
MYTDOG, "MY Trained Dog"
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