Seren tracking

 Surry Parks & Rec Seren:  Long distance track, incorporating some woods, age 35 min, 3 turns, 4 intermediate articles. I saw no evidence that the distance was a problem. She had a little difficulty around the tractor just after the 2nd  turn but worked it out. There was a strong petroleum odor around there when we ran the track, which of course I didn’t notice during tracklaying. She did get blown off some by the wind at times, most notably at the end when she lay down about 15 feet downwind from the article. The sun was in my eyes when we came out of the woods & I didn’t perceive that she was that far off the actual track.  Will work on off-track articles more - both dogs could use this. https://youtu.be/SEZmCxt8HjQ?feature=shared

 Dorey Park Seren:  Taking another stab at doing a 4 hr start track. One food drop on 1st leg, alternating food & scuff every 10 steps on 2nd. I thought this was pretty good. Very nice start, didn’t find food on 1st leg (new variety) & quickly gave up on it. Significantly overshot turn, I think because wind was at our back on 1st leg & was blowing pretty hard just then. LOS was subtle but then she stopped almost immediately. A little difficulty finding leg 2, but eventually did & I think was adequately reinforced. So this track was good for building attitude & confidence https://youtu.be/JbDY3BvbG3A?feature=shared

 Trevvett Elementary School  Seren:  8 turn stairstep, all in the open. Age 3.5hr Not particularly proud of this one, tho it had its moments. I’m thinking the heat is more of an issue for her than when she was younger. Will definitely do some starts next https://youtu.be/i6OYhdh46g0?feature=shared

 Capital Park Seren:  4 one turn start tracks #1 - age 1 hour. 52 degrees. This went well. She overshot turn, which was not marked, but re-aquired the track easily. I have never thought she was cued by flags, but I may be mistaken about this. Will pay more attention in the future https://youtu.be/JZP4JGmTHg4?feature=shared #2 - age 2hr. 54 degrees. Again, went quite well. Did better with the turn on this one. https://youtu.be/DqinnBDhHi8?feature=shared #3 - age 3hr. 55 degrees. Ended up running what is marked as #4 on the map for this one as by the time 3 hours came around a guy had taken up residence on #3 & was practicing his soccer moves. Seren has gotten better about her soccer ball noise aversion, but not good enough to want to approach the start flag, so we just moved on to the next track. She did quite well going away from soccer guy, but the turn would have caused us to go parallel to where he was playing & she didn’t think that was a good idea even though I co...

 Kelly’s Farm. Sunny, temp in the low 40’s, moderate wind, low humidity. Dylan had a 2 turn track, laid by Chris. About 90 min. old. He did well except preferred not to walk in the prickly stuff. Afterward we did some pick up the treats in the prickly cover games, outside of the tracking context & we will continue to do this  https://youtu.be/bqTovL-Ttrs?feature=shared

 Hanover Courthouse Seren: 2 turn track going through strip of woods. Age 4 hours. I thought this went very well other than a few glitches after coming out of the woods To do:  distance track, stairstep @3.5hr, obstacle exercise track using asphalt road (after finding a place I feel safe) https://youtu.be/92foqH-ZKIg?feature=shared Dylan: two 1 turn tracks. Track 1 was 1 hour old & went very well. Track 2 was 2 hours old & started fine but he had a lot of trouble with the turn. Don’t quite know what to make of that except it may have been too big a jump in age. I should have offered water, but didn’t have any as I didn’t think we needed it for such a short track. (He didn’t want any when we got back to the car) He has done 2 hours before, just not recently. This track had a lot of food on it, & he missed at least half of it. Will need to revisit this scenario. To do:  8 turn stairstep, distance track, series of 1 turn tracks starting at 1 hr old & increasi...