Night two at Pasco Paws

We want to have a trial at Pasco Paws every weekend!  14 runs over 2 nights, and 14 Qs.  Most with placements.  Lonya got 3 new titles!

We started tonight with Lonya running Jackpot.  It was a non traditional Jackpot.  There were 3 distance challenges, and if you did all 3 successfully, you got a pair of fuzzy dice!  The 15 point gamble was jump/tunnel/jump.  The 20 point gamble was jump/aframe/tunnel (could be done in either direction).   The tunnel was under the frame, so you had to do the frame with a turn away from you into the tunnel, or do the tunnel with a turn towards you to do the frame.  The 25 point gamble was a 3 jump pinwheel, could be done in any order, in flow.  I had a fairly good path that would allow us to attempt all 3, I wasn't sure she could do them all, but wanted to try.  With the shepherds, I always was working on just trying to get the points needed, they really didn't have the speed to try the "fun" stuff.   She did the pinwheel pretty well (one bobble that I fixed) and the aframe one went well too.  We had to run across the field to get to the tunnel one, which was easy and she did just fine.  I was a bit worried we'd run out of time, but we raced back across the field to the table and she had several seconds to spare!  She won a purple pair of fuzzy dice!  It was fun to be able to try it, and even more fun to succeed!  It was her second level 3 Q (and a second place).

Next run was snooker.  This was a nicer course than yesterday (for me at least).  We did 1/7/1/6/1/3 then the close.  It was all jumps and tunnels again.  I did have to call her HARD off one tunnel, but she stopped!  The close was smooth and she ended up getting 46 points in 29.33 seconds (course time was 45).  This was her second level 2 Q (first place) and gave her the CL2-S title (Level 2 Strategy).

Next up was Standard.  Sparrow ran first.  It was a pretty straight forward course, at least it seemed so!  But, while watching the dogs before Sparrow run, quite a few took an off course teeter that I didn't notice in the walk through.  Sparrow wasn't overly speedy, but she was clean.  She didn't look at the off course teeter, but I also tried to tell her pretty early where she was going.  She Q'd with a second place.  She ran it in 59.89, course time was 65.

Lonya ran Standard next.  She really ran well, after we got past the weaves (they were obstacle 2).  I think she carried too much speed into them and missed the entry.  It took me a couple of tries to get her set up correctly.  But, once we got those right, she flew through the rest of the course.  She got her second level 2 Q (first place), she ran it in 39.17 (course time 57).

Jumpers was next.  Sparrow ran first.  It was a bit of a twisty to start out with, not Sparrow's favorite.  It did have a nice 4 jump ending though!  Sparrow ran it clean, and she Q'd.  She was just under time, 37.77 seconds, course time was 38.  She got first place, go Sparrow!

Lonya's jumpers course was VERY nice.  We had a slight miscue where she ran around a jump.  She called off a tunnel beautifully though.  She backjumped the jump, but we got back in sync and she ended really nice.  She still got a Level 2 Q though, for another 1st place.  She ran it in 21.89 seconds, well under course time of 36, even with the bobble.  This gave her the last Q needed for her CL2-F title (Level 2 Fun).

Our last run of the weekend was FullHouse for Lonya.  It was a nice smooth course, and Lonya ran it very nicely!  She did decide to end it early though, silly girl!  I told her tunnel, she thought table and went there, stopping our clock!  We still had about 10 seconds left where could have gotten more points!  But, she got 31 points, which got her a Level 3 Q and a first place.  It's fun to run FullHouse where I don't really have to worry about points!

So we ended the weekend, 14 for 14.  Lonya finished 3 titles, and is now in Level 3 for all the games!  Sparrow ran well in the heat/humidity (even though it wasn't TOO bad!).  And Lonya handled a full CPE weekend fantastic!  She was raring to go for every run, high energy and low stress!   And tons of FUN!