So Not Me

It's another one of our long trips up to Preston today and therefore another 5am start. Today it's the North-West Club Championships; we're taking dogging here.

Doggo warms up nicely for Crufts with four clear rounds out of four. As a team we record five pairs of clear rounds in the two events that count for the championship, with only four good scores required. This would normally guarantee a trophy for first or second but I can't help feeling that today's courses have been easier than usual, so there'll probably be a lot of clears.

We are all done by 3pm but hang on for the results which don't appear until gone 5pm. They have computerised the results this year which obviously slowed things down. We don’t get anything in the individual which we'd expected, it's tough in Grade 6 on such fast courses, but to our surprise the team lands first place. What's even more encouraging is that three of our four Crufts team members are in those five pairs of clears; the fourth member wasn't competing today. Doggo and I even get custody of the trophy.

We head back down the motorway, L had got me pencilled in for Kate tonight, and in return I'd got her down for Che tomorrow. That's as in 'Revolutionary Road' and 'Che Part 2' but oddly Revolutionary Road seems to no longer be on anyway. Seems if you don't win the Oscar you're off. L is gutted, she'd read the book especially. She consoles herself by going with Daughter to 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' in the afternoon, which is just so not me but each to their own.

So in the end we stay in and I save my energies for the duathlon tomorrow.