Hi!
You gave yourself a great challenge!
Did you post a link? I don’t see it but maybe I am looking right past it?
>>Set it up at 1:30 didn’t run it till around 3:30 – 4:00 pm
Did you walk it right after set up? That 2 hour time difference simulates a real trial!
>>I can tell you with Tanner I felt confident in what it was but frustrated with both boys that I couldn’t get enough room to feel like I could move in my handling.
Ah! Great distraction – just like at a trial where the course might feel ‘tight’ and not enough room between obstacles.
>>. I was concentrating more with the verbal conversation going on and trying to tune it out with Buddy’s run and just didn’t feel the connection that I had with Tanner. Did make note to myself about having verbal conversation around me to work on in my memorization and visualization. I also made note to myself to praise Tanner more when close handling ( I had forgotten about when working on my run reminders for Tanner ).>>
And this is exactly why we do these exercises… to make notes and add to what we need to do at an actual trial. Mission accomplished!! Yay!
>> my mind wasn’t thinking about it until I walked back in with Tanner.
Were you able to pull up the visualizations and remember it clearly? How did it feel?
>>I was adding lots of extra’s for me in this exercise just to see what I need to continue to work on. Such as Running boys back to back , verbal conversation distraction and not really mentally rehearsing this course prior to running it. You are right it does take continuation of working on this. Besides things that I wouldn’t have thought about until it happens to make notes to had to my work on this.>>
Perfect! That is exactly why we do it! Running clean in practice is not as important as learning what we need to do for trials.
>>I did chuckle to myself my one friend that was talking in the video said 3 different times to me I think you should re video this run with Buddy before turning it in to your instructor.
ha! yes, we want to post the first efforts, not the perfect efforts LOL!
>>your right being positive in my response she couldn’t come back with much of anything else but OKAY even tho it took 3x to get her to listen. lol I know what she was wanting me to turn in the best thing ever and her intentions are good. I can’t be perfect all the time ;)!!
This was also an important mental prep moment… most people have very good intentions and want to help… but wow, sometimes what they say does NOT help at all LOL!! So you had a great rehearsal of how to use positivity to extricate yourself from the help 🙂
>>I can’t wait till next week to discuss with how things went with my check list of mental routines. After this exercise I have a feeling there is going to be a whole lot more added on and that’s okay.
Yes! It is perfectly okay to keep learning & adding, because we are always learning and adding 🙂
Keep me posted!
Tracy