Seren tracking

 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...

 Library Seren:  4 turn track with a portion in the woods, a road crossing, 3 hours old. 1-3 food drops per leg. Article in woods had food in it. End article (with food in it) had been moved ~6 ft to the right. She downed where it should have been, then we both caught sight of the article at the same time. It still had one piece of food in it Seren didn’t seem to think this one was as much fun as I thought she would. Ants were an issue & it got hot faster than anticipated - related? There was also a lot more activity at this site than there usually is when library is closed, I felt like I had to rush her across the road as there was a lot more vehicle traffic than normal. As on Tuesday, I like how she recognizes where an article had been. https://youtu.be/_V7tDqo9Qp8?feature=shared

 Surry P&R Dylan:  4 turn track, mostly in woods. Scuff start & out of turns, 1 food drop/leg. Age 1 hour. I meant to drop an article in the woods, but forgot. Dylan did very well. Needed verbal reminder for start article, but not end one https://youtu.be/Dvxhht_YQyM?feature=shared