Leslie and Halas's Blog – September 2010 Archive (2)

We were hoping that Halas would pick up Sunday where he left off Saturday, and he did not disappoint. He ended Saturday on a positive note, and Sunday was a great day. He ran in 5 of our team's 6 races today. Early in the day, we decided that we'd keep him out of the last race, because he would probably be getting pretty tired by then. Our races today were 4 heats, and my little guy ran a total of 17 heats in those 5 races. Most of his runs were clean, and in the couple where he messed up and… Continue

We're at another flyball tournament this weekend. The last one we were at (3 weeks ago) was pretty large, and Halas was a little overwhelmed. He managed to do his first clean run that weekend, but that was his only clean run the whole weekend. We've been working on distractions, etc. at practice, but it's hard to recreate a tournament atmosphere at practice. So, today, we started out just running him during warm-ups, not running during races. Our team had 6 races today, 5 heats each. On our… Continue