Knee News is Good News
March 3rd, 2008 Posted in chondrosarcoma, knee rehab, trialsIt took me two days to figure out why my timing was so bad with Elly on Saturday.
This is what I figured out: I took painkillers and my knee did NOT hurt. So I ran faster. I always run faster in trials than in practice, and I’ve adjusted for it, but I’d guess the sprint training I’ve been doing, plus the painkillers… I was overrunning cue positions, I know. Plus I’ve been training speed with Elly–which I got in Open FAST–so I should have been cuing a lot earlier than I was. No wonder I got four run-arounds in jumpers… the poor dog was getting the cues so late she didn’t know what I wanted.
The jumpers course was fun: 18 obstacles… one of which was the weaves and one of which was a straight tunnel. Not 18 obstacles in sequence….18 discrete things that you had to avoid running into, some of which I wanted to layer for distance, some of which I had to run around, which is another thing that contributed to my bad timing. When your stride length is longer than you expected (see: “no pain”), you run into jumps. Or nearly run into jumps.
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