Monday, July 31, 2017

The Weekend Report: The Curse is Broken! Plus Lots of Bonus Video!

At long last, Jimmy and I have broken out of our funk, and gotten back on track! This weekend was one of our favorite trials, the Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club of the Potomac's annual event. I have been doing less agility, usually signing up for only one day, but for this trial, I made sure to sign up for Saturday and Sunday! I am SO glad I did. The courses were challenging and fun, and Jimmy and I seemed to have our timing back. We qualified in all four runs over the weekend, bringing in double-Q #16 and double-Q #17 toward our PACH2 championship title! Whew and yay! I have video of three out of four of the runs, plus stick around to watch something very fun and special at the end of this post.

Map #1 for our Saturday morning Standard run....(photos from my phone so not so great)



And the video.....





Followed by Jumpers....the map...



The video....



Both these runs were successful with a bit of good luck thrown in. I heard Jimmy tick a couple of the jump bars pretty hard, but luckily the bars didn't fall! This was double-Q #16 toward the 20 we need.

On to Sunday...

It started with Standard once again....the map...



The video.....




Of course the last run was another Jumpers run, but I only have the map. I didn't ask anyone to help with the video.


Qualifying in the Jumpers run gave us our second double-Q of the weekend and #17 toward our title. Plus another 97 points all combined for the weekend, but we have many more of those than we need already. We had good, healthy competition this trial so we didn't earn the blue ribbon quite so often, but that's OK! I was thrilled to just double qualify! Here is our pretty rainbow of colors.....


At most trials, I have the only Cardigan Corgi. There are usually several Pembrokes, and at this trial there are tons of Pemmies. But this time quite a few of my Cardigan friends showed up. All told, there were seven Cardis running. Saturday's Standard run had Cardigans winning three of the four placement ribbons! How cool is that?!

Now, at the beginning of this post I told you to stick around for something fun and special. At this trial our judges were Barbara Bounds and Oksana Syrkin. But really, in Oksana's place should have been judge Pam Johnson. Sadly, Pam is very ill and in the hospital, so Oksana was filling in for her. There has been a push to help raise funds for Pam. As we all know in this day and age, being sick is very expensive, especially when you are too sick to work. So the judges volunteered to run one of the agility courses themselves to help bring in donations.

Our dogs are much more proficient at running these course, but it sure is fun to watch people try!

Here is Oksana's run on the course from my first map above....





And then Barbara's turn....same course...




Over the course of the weekend, the judges and competitors managed to raise about $1000. Not too bad! Here's wishing Pam a speedy recovery. We all hope to see her back in the agility ring as soon as she feels better!

Tracking Jimmy's PACH 2 progress:
Very 1st Double-Q: Sunday 5/1/2016
QQ#20: 
Masters JWW legs: 61...MJP Title 01/25/15 MJPB 10/11/15 MJPS Title
Masters STD legs: 55...MXP Title!10/24/14 MXPB 04/30/17 MXPS Title
Double Q's: 17(out of 20 needed)
PACH Points: 1760 plus more! I have lost count!

1 comment:

  1. I LUFFS watching the videos...sooooo much funs!!!
    What a lovely thing to do to raise money for Judge Pam, shows what wonderful peeps doggie owners are!
    loves and licky kisses
    Princess Leah xxx

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