9-7-24

 Atlee High School. Short grass with the normal stuff you would see on a school property. 68 degrees k 5mph wind, 87% humidity, overcast. Track laid @ 8:25& aged 30min

Intent was to check on distance skills, & I put in an 800yd track. Leg 1 was 250yd with metal article @100, food @110 & 200. Ended in left turn. Leg 2 100yd with leather article @60, food @70. Another left turn. Leg 3 150 yd, plastic article @100, food @110, then right turn. Leg 4 200yd with metal article @50, food @60&125, then left turn. Leg 4 100yd with food @20, 50, &75. Leather glove at end.

Seren did well. Start & all articles excellent, even the one that fell out of my pocket which she found when we went back to pick up flags. I offered her water twice, but she didn’t want it. One weird thing - on the 3rd leg, track came very close to the end of a chain link fence. On the other side of the fence was a fist-sized chunk of concrete which Seren decided she wanted, to the point of trying to dig under the fence to get to it, even though it was only a foot or two to walk around the end of the fence to get to. I don’t know if she thought it was an article or what, but she lost interest once I showed her how to get to it by going around & went back to tracking. Wouldn’t be a Border Collie if she wasn’t weird, right?

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