19/03/2025
GB tryouts 2 🇬🇧
We made a huge journey since end of August to get to this weekend. Gertie had a muscle tear in her right hind leg in August, we got the go ahead for the Olympia Quarterfinal, then more physios and rest, then 3 weeks before Olympia, got the go ahead to attend Olympia with humongous amount of work on the body that continued until now. She lost quite a lot of muscle in this process and had to work really carefully to help her get it back. We done skill works but not much full course running and I feel we only got back to our “normal” self this weekend.
I lost my voice on the first tryouts weekend trying to shout over an even more enthusiastic Beastie - in this venue she bark even louder 🙉, so crufts and this weekend was about me just running as I should and not thinking: can she hear me, is she coming? 🙉🙈
THE BEASTIE HAS EXCEEDED MY EXPECTATIONS❤️
4 out of 5 Clear, 2 x 2nd, 6th, 9th and a tiny E: my one mistake was a disconnection on a jump, otherwise Gertie was just amazing to run🥰
The highlight of the weekend was our 2nd🥈 place win in the EO FINAL on Saturday after a 2nd in agility and a 6th in the jumping round.
We had a long and hard journey to get to this point and now looking forward to our rest period and some time together with all the girls 🥰
Hubby Gary thank you for being there for me all the time ❤️
Thank you so much Natasha especially for our training on Thursday to prep for the weekend, Dan for our skill training and making me run and Ágnes for our dw support, our AW Motivators team
SMART Specialist Veterinary Referrals for working really hard with me on Gertie’s physical prep
Karma Fitness all year around exercising to prep the body for our runs
And thank you to the Management team and the Team sponsors:
Dog Sports Derby
Galican Uk
Swagk9
Natural instinct
The Kennel Club Uk
I need to mention Jenny Kimber, Lindsey Lightowler, Rory Tidmarsh, Jo Tidmarsh: we had a lovely weekend, great support and lovely carvery 😜 thank you for all the videos as well 😘