Friday, June 12, 2009

Getting Hungry!

As the week is coming to a close, so is this wonderful week of visiting family in the home. Yes, it's completely turned our lives upside-down but I wouldn't trade it for a single moment.
I'll be re-claiming my home and schedule next week and am already beginning to form training thoughts. It will be interesting to see how Moto behaves as we return to a training schedule. I know that I am "starved" for competition and training and I'm feeling that fire in the belly to get going and get on with what I feel I was born to do, which is train and show dogs.
I will still train Blitz since he loves it so, and if his health is good the day before a show closes, I will enter him. But no more big dreams. If it happens, it happens. I cannot go through that emotional roller coaster again. I will focus on Moto.
Shiloh is clearly depressed with all this non-work. His deafness has prohibited his return to the obedience and herding arena. Honestly, he cannot compete in agility either but there may be enough hearing/body language reading that we can get away with it. But most importantly he wants to work and be with me so I've signed both he and Moto up for agility to begin July 1. Which brings up another hurdle: driving in the dark. I don't know if I'm brave enough to do it. I've conquered everything else - I've driven in storms, I've driven in rush hour traffic (which was terrifying but I did it) but the dark is something I still don't feel ready for.
So I'll give myself one more week "off" of slowly ramping back up - backyard training and catching up with work - and then the following week I plan to resume my workout schedule, dog training schedule and see how my body handles it.
I am so hungry I can taste it!

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