MBCC Agility show

What an exhausting weekend!, as Amy and I are committee members of the MBCC we were tasked with the job of helping to organise and run their first agility show! the Midlands Border Collie Club are not a training club, but a club to promote the breed, at which they do a sterling job, they already run Championship Obedience, Breed and working trials shows and are hoping to in the future extend that to agility. We arrived at the venue at 5pm on Saturday afternoon to set out the rings, prepare ring boxes and generally make sure everything was set up ready for the competitiors arrival early Sunday morning. We had decided to take our caravan to stay overnight so that we were on site bright and early. It really shocks me the time some people arrive at an event, the show started at 8:30 but by 7am people had already started to turn up!! maybe I'm missing something, we usually rock up half an hour before judging starts, walk the courses, then the dogs, etc etc Im not sure what everyone else does!
We were very lucky to have enlisted the help of a fabulous ring party, all of whom did a brilliant job making sure our ring ran smoothly, so I'd like to say a huge thank you to:
Ellen & Louise, Anne & Sara, Sara & Amy, and especially James & Fay who helped set up on Saturday as well as getting up early to put all the signage out. all your help was greatly appreciated.
Amy and I did manage to run our dogs, Summer ran brilliantly, Amy was a little Lazy on some of her contacts and Summer was a little naughty on others! but she ran a lovely clear in the combined 1-3 jumping gaining a 20th place, and she had her Zoomy feet on again, so Amy's going to have to get some new running shoes to keep up with her! Although I didn't have any clears with Maisy I was really pleased with how she ran, I wasn't able to really give her the attention she deserved before each run but again there were some lovely moments She even managed a really great A frame contact (after I had put her back on the dog walk!) in one of her agility rounds so we are at least moving forward albeit very slowly.
Lastly a HUGE congratulations to Jo and Zippy for winning into grade 5, I know it's come sooner than she really wanted, it is testement to her commitment, she has re-trained his A frame to a running contact and boy did he get it right on Sunday, it really does knock seconds of the time.