Weekend Of Personal Bests...

Well, Tractor and I are home from a long and exhausting weekend of DockDogs in Long Beach, CA. It was well worth the lack of sleep and drive though, as he walked away with quite a few accomplishments!

Friday was a bit chilly and the water was COLD (for this desert dog anyway) and so I was nervous about how he would do, as the last time we were at a cold event (Shot Show, in Vegas in February 08) he refused to jump and actually went off the side of the dock to avoid the water. That was not the case this weekend! Friday, we were entered in Speed Retrieve and a Big Air wave. Well, he not only came in 1st for speed retrieve, but he also bettered his time by 2/100's of a second! His new PB is now 6.215 seconds! He also secured his final master jumper leg with a 21'10'' jump, also earning him first place in the master division that wave.

Saturday was another long day with more Big Air, more Speed Retrieve and finally, EV. His BA was also amazing - with him getting a couple more 20' jumps, but also securing his new personal best with DockDogs.... 22'5''! I couldn't believe it.. guess the off season has paid off! :) His Speed Retrieve for that day was still strong for him - both times in the 6.3 range... and then finally up for the day was EV. He came in 4th with his last successful grab at 6'8''!

Sunday was finals, and because of that new personal best, he had his first chance to compete in the PRO finals. Of course, we were up against the absolute biggest jumpers of the weekend, so we did end up in 8th place, but I could not be prouder of him.

Lastly, this was our first event competing in Iron Dog. Iron Dog is where they take your best scores of all three sports and average them out - and you get one grand total. Well, we had some tough competition there and I am beyond happy to report that he walked away with a 3rd place win!

He had an absolutely amazing weekend, competed his butt off and I could not be happier with him. He had a blast all weekend, but was definitely ready to come home and return to agility. He had group class on Tuesday night and was a little nutty. This weekend we'll be getting our weaves/jumps we ordered so we'll have stuff at home to work on.. I can't wait!

Nothing coming up before Del Mar- except maybe one or two practice times on our new, very own, Las Vegas Dock Dog club pool/dock which will be done this weekend!

Del Mar is the next stop on our DockDogs list - then after that it'll be agility here in Vegas! Once Lianne has a chance to work on Tractor's video from this weekend, I'll get it up on our Youtube, so stay tuned!