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August

In august we rested a lot. Just a bit of training, But mostly resting :)  

Rally obedience competition, 08.08.26

 The competition were held close to home, only 20 min drive. Judge was Linda Wiksten (FIN). We were competing in grade 2. 1st course. Somehow we lost 4points in start. She sneezed? Then at first sign we lost 8p, because she were sniffing hard 2 times even.  It went a bit smootly then, but I didnt manage to make her spin on time, -10p :(. After that she was good, but before the end, on the last turn, she lost focus - turned to me (-10p). So overall basically 3x failed signes + somehow deductions in the start = -33p. In total 67p.   2nd course . On this course we managed to get on 4 signs -10p, one from them was on me - I turned to the wrong way, and one was again spinning too late. Uhh. But also some sniffing and distractions cost us about -15p. So this time it was only 45 points left for us. It was quite disappointing and not encouraging :D But still got 3rd place on both courses :) But I have to admit that we had no training for rally at all for a month. We will try aga...

Janakkala Open 31.07-02.08.2026

 As we cannot participate in IPAC this year, then we decided to go to Janakkala Open as our "big event abroad".  It was planned as our last competition in grade 2.  We started our family trip one day earlier to settle in to the camping house at the lake side 15 mins from the competition grounds.  DAY 1 The competition started only in the afternoon, so we spent the first half of the day at the beach: Then it was time to go to the competition, register and get my number Jumping course (B) . Judge Reetta Pirttikoski. Nice course and everything went as planned. Maybe I was a bit careful but it was first time running on that kind of gravelly surface for both of us. We got clean run with speed 5.65 m/s. That gave us 2nd place and ticket to the finals.  Jumping course (A) . Judge Einari Pekkala. Lot of wraps on the course (5). Only one change of the plan, where I did a rear cross instead of planned blind, but all went well and we had another clean run with speed 4.9 ...