A Secret Mission

Mid-Atlantic MADness

We had an okay day at MADness. This was the first time Cisco has trialed outdoors in nearly a year (GRCA National last year). And well, I think it showed today.

We started the day with the ask your instructor to tape your run curse. It was jump to dog walk (he missed the dog walk and we had to go back around to get it), tunnel, tire, teeter (he bailed on the teeter), jump, jump, table (he came off the table), weaves (he didn’t want to do them either). At this point I told the just we were done. Wow…. that was bad. I definitely need to work him more outside.

Next was snooker and we rocked it. We got three sevens and the closing sequence for 51 points.

Finally we had jumpers (which USDAA jumpers is usually Cisco’s favorite course). I was having a hard time motivating him for his run — which I should have taken as a sign to run with him instead of attempting a lead out. Instead he was pokey for about the first 7 jumps. Then he kicked things into high gear and had a beautiful second half of the run. We missed a jump in the first part, but he still managed to come in under time despite his pokiness.

I really can’t complain. We ended up taking most of the summer off between field work, vacation, and Riot’s illness. He’s had one week of class since May (and as stated previously, it’s been a year since we ran outside).