After a short night we were up again early this morning. During the very brief briefing I happened to be lying next to two vets - one, Chelle, was being so nice as she sat next to me and let me use her leg as a pillow. That was so nice and so great. It was really nice not to have to hold my head up. Anyway, we had Boogie with us and he's been licking his foot a lot. So I asked if they'd look at his foot. They said it is swollen, leaking, and irritated. Gosh I sure couldn't see that! Anyway, he has to soak his foot three times a day for two weeks. And he has to not lick it at all. They said if we didn't get this under control right away it could become a chronic thing for life. Gads! Sure glad I asked them to take a look. Chelle was even so nice to give us the stuff we need to soak his foot in. She is just the best!!
Today we started with Touch No Go. It was a longer course than yesterday with 15 obstacles, but certainly not considered a long course. Even so, it seemed like a fair number of people had trouble with this course. There were quite a number of missed contacts and off courses.
Wazzu was not at all happy looking as we were in the queue so I was worried that she was going to be in walking mode. But as soon as we got to the start line she was tugging at the leash wanting to take off. So off we went - fast. She was perfect - I had one tiny bobble where I got lost but fortunately figured it out before we had an off course. I don't think Wazzu took a wrong step at all - just me while she was in the tunnel. As it turns out, Wazzu had her highest finish so far at this year's championships - 15th. That's great out of such a big class and running against all the youngsters too.
Sparkie was really moving fast on the course. It is so great to see her running with such confidence. Mike is really trying to push her hard now as every tenth of a second counts! Unfortunately she got going a little too fast (is there such a thing!) and missed her contact by about an eighth of inch. Oh, it was so close! Just to show you how fast her time was, she would have had 4th place if we hadn't cut her toenails last night! Ha ha.
PNW Touch N Go Results: clean runs only
8" Bill Judge and Rosie 3rd place
12" Bill Judge and Teddy 1st place
16" Kim Wiklof and Pinot 14th place
20" Bart Pierce and Pulse 1st place
20" Susan Perry and Chevy 4th place
20" Katherine Martucci and Dazzle 5th place
20" Susan Perry and Harley 7th place
20" Penny Richardson and Shen 16th place
20+ Michael Bruce and Jule 2nd place
20+ Teresa Jewitt and Bogie 10th place
20+ Debbie Mason and Wazzu 15th place
20+ Andrea Dexter and Token 18th place
20+ Andread Dexter and Ceilidh 22nd place
20+ Carolynne Myall and Fortune 24th place
PNW Super Stakes Touch N Go Results: clean runs only
20+ Karen Hunter and Quickie 1st place
The next run was Weavers and once again Wazzu wasn't entered in that. Mike knows that Sparkie has to have an absolutely amazing run to beat the best Border Collies and Aussies in the games here at the Championships. So they were having a great run and on the last set of poles Mike tried to really push her hard. She tried to go super duper fast and on the second to last pole got a little tangled up and missed the pole. She had a fantastic run otherwise.
PNW Weavers Results: clean runs only
8" Bill Judge and Rosie 2nd place
12" Lynda King and Robby 1st place
12" Bill Judge and Teddy 3rd place
16" Kim Wiklof and Pinot 17th place
20" Susan Perry and Harley 1st place
20" Bart Piece and Pulse 4th place
20" Kari Hammargen and Elf 15th place
20" Susan Perry and Chevy 18th place
20" Katherine Martucci and Dazzle 19th place
20+ Susan Perry and Lacey 5th place
20+ Andrea Dexter and Ceilidh 9th place
20+ Michael Bruce and Jule 14th place
The next run was Tunnelers. This was a fun looking course but had it's challenges as well. Wazzu was really ready to go for this run. She took off fast and never looked back. It seemed to me we did really well. I was so pleased with our run. And when I came off the course a couple people commented that Wazzu had run such a perfect and efficient line. We were getting lots of compliments on our run. And it felt great! But get this, when I looked at the results it did indeed show that we had run clean - but we came in 54th!
Sparkie had a great Tunnelers run as well. She is running very confidently right now. She and Mike ran a very nice line - only one turn was anything you might have considered slightly wide but just slightly wide if at all. Sparkie finished a very respectable 16th place.
PNW Tunnelers Results: clean run only
8" Bill Judge and Rosie 6th place
8" Clare Bland and Ralph 9th place
12" Lynda King and Robby 1st place
12" Bill Judge and Teddy 7th place
16" Kim Wiklof and Pinot 22nd place
20" Susan Perry and Harley 3rd place
20" Bart Pierce and Pulse 4th place
20" Katherine Martucci and Dazzle 5th place
20" Kari Hammargren and Elf 6th place
20" Susan Perry and Chevy 7th place
20" Michael Bruce and Xena 19th place
20" Scott Imlay and Jade 23rd place
20+ Andrea Dexter and Ceilidh 9th place
20+ Robbins Church and Kelly 11th place
20+ Pat Weinkauf and Will 12th place
20+ Mike Mason and Sparkie 16th place
20+ Debbie Pierce and Kobe 30th place
20+ Amanda Gross and Fez 33rd place
20+ Karen Hunter and Pounce 37th place
20+ Michael Bruce and Jule 42nd place
20+ Teresa Jewett and Bogie 45th place
20+ Andrea Dexter and Token 52nd place
20+ Debbie Mason and Wazzu 54th place
Next was Jumpers. Since the results aren't out yet for that I'll tell you about it tomorrow. I'm just too tired tonight.
Finally, at 9:30 Phase III Hoopers started. We totally had planned on running and had listened to the whole (very long) briefing and then devised our strategy. But by 10:15 or so it still wasn't our turn and we just gave out. We were tuckered. So we both scratched.
I'll fill you in on this new game more tomorrow. It's after 11:00pm now and we need to get some sleep. Morning comes so fast!
Debbie
9/20/07
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