Winter #14

 Goal was distance and maintaining attention to track. The start went well I thought. When we approached the first turn I gave him more line. Looking at the video I can see he clearly showed me the right turn and I didn’t go with him which caused his frustration. As I remember I knew the turn was at the light pole but should have had a ground marker as well. On the second leg I cannot figure why part way into the leg he kept wanting to go left. Maybe from watching the video and with your knowledge you will know. The track was even to the right of where actually I was as you can see his taking a food drop to the right. Second turn was made well with a “leave it” for track trash at that turn. He did a nice job I thought of not being distracted by traffic, by a loud trash truck picking up trash on the road adjacent or by the track being close to the woods. He missed the final article and so did I! Then I see I pointed it out to him! UGH! I think I did a better job of line handling and not moving my feet 

https://youtu.be/zWQPf1EWLrM 

https://youtu.be/CWXBrf945WU 

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  1. Jack's JourneyMarch 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM

    Some good parts, some struggles. When the whining starts near the telephone pole and he is frustrated, I think I would have moved up, found my turn, and only paid the line out when he was correct. I understand putting him in a situation where he needs to figure it out - just like in a test - but I am not sure he is actually ON the track on leg 2. So that leg is a little bit of a mess. The leg that goes along the wood line - again, I would have moved up to 10 feet to get him to smoothly move down that tree line without stops and starts. Overall I thought it was positive but keep an eye on his movement left to right to left to right - if you see that, move up so he is true to the track. And your line handling taking in, letting out - getting better.

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