Titles Achieved to date...

Monumental A to Z High On Liberty
NW1, RATI, RATN, RATO, NW2, L1I, RATS, L1E, L1C, L1V, L2C, L2I, L2E, RATM, R-FE/N, PKD-TL, PKD-N, ADPL1, ADPL2, TD, UWP, ADPL3, NTD, TKN, L2V, ADPL4, SDS-N, ADPL5, ADPCH, ADP1(2), ADPL1(GC), ADPL2(2), ADPL2(GC), VPN, AP, UWPCH, ADPL3(2), ADPL3(GC), NC, NI, NE, SCN, SIN, SEN, CZ8B, NV, NN, ADPL4(2), ADPL4(GC), ADPGCH, ADPL5(2), RATCH, CZ8S, AI, TKI, AV, AE, AC, AN, R-FE/X NW3-V, NW3-E, SI, RN, R-FE/NS, CZ8G, SC, SV, SE, SN, SEA, SBN, SWN, SIA, SCA, ADP-1(Th), ADP-2(Th), ADP-3(Th), ADP-4(Th), ADP-5(Th), and ADP-CH(Th)... 81 and counting...

Sunday, July 22, 2018

Urban Tracking (97 & 98)

With Gimme's recent misses of articles at Medline, I wanted to be sure to get in some article circles before the TDU/VST Seminar weekend with Sil.

On Friday, July 13th, Nadine and I met at Game Farm Park.  I asked her to lay an article circle for us, with lots of really small articles.  She essentially laid us a short track with articles on every leg, aged 50 minutes.  Gimme tried really hard and did pretty good, but not her usual excellent ability.  She missed a couple of articles, so I just held her back a bit (not hard since she wasn't tracking with her usual confidence) until she came upon them.  The next day I discovered she had a major bellyache, so I assumed it might be throwing her off her game.

We've since resolved the issue causing her upset tummy, I thought when we tracked on Thursday, July 19th, she'd do better.  This time Nadine and I met at Auburn Cinema and she laid us an article circle, aged 50 minutes.  Gimme got through the track and did find all her articles, but not with her usual focus and confidence.  It was dry and overcast.

Her tracking has been off for the last 6 weeks.  The last really strong efforts were field tracking at the TD/TDX seminar.  I've been thinking we just lost a lot of ground since we didn't have any sessions on pavement during the whole month of May and early part of June. 

Unfortunately my efforts to recover ground haven't seemed to do any good.  Even the motivational tracks haven't seemed easy for her.  I've been looking forward to the TDU/VST seminar where I can get advice from Sil.

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