The faces of the newest K9 Gladiator team!!
Such a good time was had! great dogs, wonderful venue, perfect weather!
I'm not sure if any forum members made it out but there was a team of 3 GSD who ran before us and another with a Mali and a Beauceron.
With any new event there were a few kinks, areas for improvement and the turn out may have been smaller than expected but overall it was a success from a participants perspective and I look forward to signing up for future events sharing my stories from "the early days".
My little Keystone was a champ and completed all of the obstacle and challenges with enthusiasm and accuracy. his focus was more on obstacles than tasks (ie - moving 10 tennis balls from point A to B, but that's where teamwork came in)
We ran with a team of 5 and some of the obstacles were jumps, tunnels, A frames, walk the planks, climb over haystacks, carrying/pulling logs & tires and of course - what would a mud run be without mud! a partly covered muddy water crawl... a well established stinky sticky knee high quicksandesque mud pit (yes, shoes were lost) and two runs thru the marsh! the course was large and spread out enough that you could walk or run without any waiting or getting in each other's way which was nice and critical when mixing so many dogs.
as of yesterday I believe the quickest time was 23mins, longest 48 and I logged right in the middle with 36 minutes!
anyway... lots of talk and no pics I know!! hopefully I can share some Monday or Tuesday as there was an event photographer but she'll need time to upload.
just me and my boy!