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I have always said I hate off road running and I hate mud.... so what I was thinking of entering a very muddy very hilly 5k run today I have no idea! I was planning just to take Millie the mad lurcher but Marty was bouncing around like an eejit in the morning insisting he wanted to come too so I took them both (Amy and Flick, being sensible, had a Sunday lie-in on my bed!)
Marty was a bit overwhelmed by all the dogs and people, and stuck close to my side doing that lovely greyhound leaning thing. Millie thought it was absolutely wonderful, so much fun, so many people to bounce towards! We set off and they were both pulling like trains...
Got as far as some woods, I stepped off the path to let faster runners go past, Millie backed out of her collar and she was off..... 🙄 I think she pretty much overtook the whole field (I kept getting comments from other runners at the finish ‘oh she overtook me, she is so fast!’) - I tried calling until another lovely canicrosser told me not to worry, it happens, and someone would catch her. A mile or so later I found her with a lovely lady marshal who had grabbed her! So we did the final mile or so together, and I took away a learning point that she will be kitted out with a harness, and probably a padlock and chain, before we try again 😂
It was a really tough run which would have been so much easier if Millie has been pulling me along, but we really enjoyed it & will definitely be trying again once she is kitted out properly 😊
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Marty was a bit overwhelmed by all the dogs and people, and stuck close to my side doing that lovely greyhound leaning thing. Millie thought it was absolutely wonderful, so much fun, so many people to bounce towards! We set off and they were both pulling like trains...
Got as far as some woods, I stepped off the path to let faster runners go past, Millie backed out of her collar and she was off..... 🙄 I think she pretty much overtook the whole field (I kept getting comments from other runners at the finish ‘oh she overtook me, she is so fast!’) - I tried calling until another lovely canicrosser told me not to worry, it happens, and someone would catch her. A mile or so later I found her with a lovely lady marshal who had grabbed her! So we did the final mile or so together, and I took away a learning point that she will be kitted out with a harness, and probably a padlock and chain, before we try again 😂
It was a really tough run which would have been so much easier if Millie has been pulling me along, but we really enjoyed it & will definitely be trying again once she is kitted out properly 😊
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It just happened you could run with dogs as well 
