Is it Sunday already?! Another warmer day! It's nice to be so comfortable.
For Sarah's fun today I used one obstacle from a Tim Kimura trail pattern. I think that the best way to describe today's trail obstacle is to draw a picture of it...thereby painting 1000 words! Seven poles, four cones. We took this at a jog-trot (follow the dotted line):
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I \ . . .
I .\ . . .
I . \ . . O .
I . O . O I . .
I . . . I . .
. _____ I_______ end
. I
. I
O . I
. I
. I
. /
/ ...................start
First time through, Sarah rushed it. She broke pattern; it was unpleasant; using a direct rein on her to force her to pay attention caused her to almost trip. Second time through, she almost made it, but missed the last turn at the last cone. At this point, I thought that the obstacle might be too difficult for her and considered widening the distances so that the turns would not be so tight. But, just for grins, we tried a third time. Third time was a charm. She slowed her pace way down, realized that she had to pay attention to the aids, and made all of her turns. Good girl! We spent the rest of the time reviewing straight-line lope-overs and also did variations on trot-overs, and side-passing over poles. Tomorrow will be her day off.
Enjoy this weather!
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