We ran in PSJ first.
I planned to front cross after #2 and then sprint around the course to #9 and then rear cross, then keep sprinting. Once we hit the weave poles the second time I was going to leave her in the poles and do a front cross on the takeoff side of #17 then rear the tunnel. The plan went awry from the beginning - Trix just didn't want to hold her startline, so I ended up having to run with her and then rear crossing #3. Our run smoothed out after that small snafu until we got to the weaves the second time. I completely forgot that I was supposed to move laterally until she had reached pole #7 and then I was just like "Ahhh I should be over there!" and then I ran over to where I wanted to cross. Of course, Trixie popped out of the weaves because I suddenly moved away from her. *smacks forehead* When I took her back to the beginning to start the weaves again to at least get a Q Trix weaved a couple poles backwards so we got an E *sigh*
A couple hours later I got to walk Grand Prix. I really liked this course because of its flow and especially because of the dog walk set up - it made it really easy for me to babysit her down contact while still effectively cuing the next parts of the course. Much like PSJ I hoped that I would be able to lead out to about halfway between #2 and #3 - but that didn't happen. Trix really didn't want to stay so I just had to be a little late to the front X. Luckily that was the end of our troubles and the rest of the run went really nicely. For some reason Trix's teeter was really slow, but then she picked it up after that. My favorite part about this run, though, was that she gave me a really nice deep contact hit on the dog walk - ok, for USDAA it was high, but considering that I usually look for a hit on the much larger AKC contact I'll take it!
Trixie got a Q and 1st place - granted there were only 2 other dogs, but given our bad luck with GP I was happy to have the Q.
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