Well I have been a little delinquent in keeping up this little training journal for the past few weeks.
Partially it was because our September training schedule has been somewhat sporadic due to Jennifer judging at Soldier Hollow and then the Nationals wiping out three weekends of training availability. But we have been back the last two weekends and will be back tomorrow for more.
So what did we learn. Piper did not magically correct all her faults by lying around for two weeks thinking about sheep. But she did not forget all her training from two weeks of inactivity either. And Diana seemed to like having us around a bit more.
One thing that did seem to be very nice is that when we got back on the field and Piper started to go way wide she took the call in whistle very nicely. I think my timing on t got a little better also.
Also If I stayed right on top of her with there and down whistles I was able to get a reasonably straight drive line in drills.
She still has trouble covering the draw with sheep that want to run on her although she will get over - she just takes an extra wide flank to get there sometimes letting it all go on for longer than it should.
Anyway we are training this weekend and then the following weekend we get back on the trial trail for the first time since Vista in June. Hoping the training put in during the hiatus in trials shows up on the trial field.
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