I was pretty amazed when I saw the course field. It was about 1,5 times bigger than are our usual course fields. I thought that Peter was training us rather than judging our runs, because they were pure running courses and in this case I mean for the handler. The dogs were very happy with the courses, because they could run more and have fun.
In the first course I was a bit negligent and we were disqualified, because I did front cross, at the wrong time and led Erk to tunnel, instead we should have taken a hurdle. From there on we just took it easy and tried to run without any mistake. Second run was CACIAG agilityrun and in the beginning it was OK for us, but in some point I lost Erk in a tunnel, because it took him very long time to get out of there. He probably did a spin and tried to get up and run as fast as he could after me. But I had gone already too far and when he reached to slalom, that was the next obsticle, he missed one gap, because he had speeded up so much. Unfortunately I did not notice that and ran forward as hell. Peter whistled, but I did not understand at that time that we were disqualified. After we finished, one competitor told me, that Erk missed one post in slalom. That was really a disappointment, but I have to blame myself for not slowing Erk down before the slalom. Anyway, the rest of the run was quite good and I do not remember any mistakes. Third run was CACIAG jumping course and in there we were really good and got third place with a clean run. I saw some things, that would have made us faster, but I was satisfied enough.
On the same day, after the main competition, there was a side event. Small donation competition for the team, who was going to Agility European Open. We ran two OPEN courses, but it did not look like proper running, because I was either negligent with handling or Erk was just crazy and ran all over the place without noticing what I said to him. At least in the first run we got ourselves a time with 10 points, but in the second run we were disqualified.
I think Erk and I were just too tired in the end and we were not concentrating enough for thouse OPEN courses.
