Fitness for Agility

Just the facts mam. 1.2 pounds.

So since I rebooted my fitness program, I'm down 11.2 pounds. Not a bad thing...a good thing. Do I want to loose 5 pounds a week. Yep. But quite frankly, I'm thrilled that I am now 30 days no fast food.

I am stunned that I have been able stay away from fast food. I drove home last night from agility class and did not even think about McDonalds until I was already home. And that thought was, "Wow, I didn't even think about it!"

Fitness. Check. Worked out hard this week.

Next week: More of the same. Hopefully the scale will reward me, but I'm not getting discouraged. I'm getting more determined.

Missing Blogs

• Nope, the blogs have not gone missing. I've been remiss. Very busy.
  
  SMART (salinas monterey racing team) had it's annual spring trial last weekend. I act as the secretary. This involves:
• Working on a database and entering all competitors entry information. Changing that entry information for multiple people and their dogs multiple times.
• Sending out lots of emails to ensure that everything is alright.
• Once all info is in, I then post the info out on the share drive, and change a bunch of stuff when people find mistakes.

At some point, I've got to stop making changes. This includes all the people that want to enter late. The only thing I hate about this job is that people will try to enter after the deadline. I've had individuals that try to enter a day before the trial. It is very hard for me to say no.

Once I say, "this is it, you've got to do the running orders," the fun begins. I have the enviable task of pairing up all the dogs for the pairs classes. For me, another stressful but fun job. I want everyone to be happy, but not everyone will be. Once the pairs are up, I print out all the running orders, check to make sure people who are running multiple dogs are far apart, and post everything up to our website.

Then I make changes as people call and say that they are not in the correct class (this should have been caught on the first posting...but what are ya going to do?).

It is now two days before the trial.

• All docs need to be printed
• The score sheets have to be created (1 label per score sheet 6-9 runs per dog per weekend, 230 dogs = 1000-2000 labels need to be put on small squares of paper).
• Once all the labels are stuck, they are organized by level and class and placed in their proper folder in ring boxes.
• A bunch of other stuff also has to go into the ring boxes including official score sheets from the USDAA, ERB documents, workers schedules, running orders, etc.
• Day of the show: just a little stress. Is get everyone entered correctly? Will the score sheets be in the proper order. Do the rings have what they need?

Was there a few problems. Yep. Always will be. But goodness it was easy this year. After the first two hours on Saturday, I actually started to relax. A good feeling. Yep, I made a couple mistakes, and of course, competitors had made a few mistakes. But overall, this was the smoothest the paperwork has gone.

Today I run the numbers and deliver checks to our treasurer on Thurs.

Tomorrow all paperwork is shipped to USDAA (I've posted the results and competitors have a couple days to check their results to make sure everything was recorded correctly).

A HUGE thanks to Laura who, despite having to deal with a dog requiring surgery last week, is the "Label Master" and helped a great deal this week.

Whew...another one bites the dust....oh, how'd you do you ask? Well...

Fin got her AD title this year (my one goal for her this trial)...not alot of other Q's, but fun runs. Tazzie had a great time...no Q's, but it is nice to see him happy and running around enjoying himself. His fav thing? Leaping of the dog walk one toenail shy of the yellow zone (@#$%$). Oh well.

Taking a break with my buddy Rob.

SMART

Salinas Monterey Racing Team (SMART). My first agility club. Two USDAA shows a year. This one I secretary. April...time for watching the mail box, organizing entries, accepting checks, worrying over details, and basically hoping for the best.

A few tips when you are entering dog shows.

• Don't send the trial secretary a black entry with a check and ask them to pick a couple classes for you. She will call you and tell you that you must decide.
• Don't ask the trial secretary 2 weeks after the closing and the day before the big show whether you can enter, she might flip out on you.

So tomorrow is the true test of whether I did it all right. Fortunately for me, we have the "SUPER" secretary and all around good citizen at this trial "Karey." who is bringing her computer and printer...just in case. With me...there is always the possibility that I screwed something up...I'm always surprised when the trial goes smoothly.

Fitness for Agility

This week was a good week. I wrote everything down. Worked out 6 of the 7 days. Today kicked a$$ in my workout. Lost .4 pounds.

Ok, body. What are you trying to tell me. 28 days no fast food? Maybe you want a burger?

My fitness guy thinks I'm not eating enough. I'm thinking I need to go back to 4 weeks ago and look at what I ate and eat that.

This week:

• Upping my veggie and fruit intake (if you see me at the trial, hand me an orange!)
• Eat more often during the day (smaller meals more often)
• Make sure to hit my points (I'll admit it. Yesterday I looked at my week and there were a couple days I did not eat all my points)
• Work out (at the trial, I need to do longer periods of cardio)

These four things will hopefully get me past this slump the last two weeks.

The good news is that physically I've never felt better! I am fitting into cloths that have sat in my closet forever. I have more energy and when I run Fin have confidence that I'm able to get where I need to be to direct her around the course. But I will admit that I am relying on that scale a little and would like to see greater improvement in that area to balance off the hard work.

In other news around the world, the SMART secretary stuff is slowly getting done. All entries have been posted and I'm working on setting up the ring boxes. I always enjoy the SMART trials. We have such a great group of people that help make our trials run smoothly.

Exceptionally Worthy News

Hillarious. Simple. I love these guys.

Is It April?

107.

A fine number.

Yet, perhaps not a number I'd expect to see as a temperature in April. Yet, this week, 107 on Monday.

Today is supposed to cool off. Friday, totally cool. Saturday (the day of our SMART trial), rain. Some of you might find this humorous. Some might not like that it will rain at our trial. I, well I welcome the rain. Rain is normal for April. 107...not normal.

Last night I drove down to Hollister for some fun agility. 94 at 5:45pm. Hmmm. I'm thinking. Do I really want to do this? Yes of course. By 6:30 it was cooling. By 7:15 it was refreshing. By 8:00pm we were all thinking about sweatshirts.

Email down

Well, it has happened again. My email account is down. Unfortunate.

Timing couldn't be better with the SMART trial next week and people trying to send me move ups and all. If you are reading this and need to send me trial info, call me...you know the number.

Linkline says email will be working later tonight. Who knows how much email I've missed.