Carting Practice

Chance and I are training to be ready for draft season this fall. We are having fun working on all aspects, and I have been a bit surprised by what was needed for conditioning of “only” 20 pounds. I think it is more about how it feels than the strength needed. Or maybe it was the heat. Anyway, today I added 5 pounds to put us at 15 total and he pulled it like it was nothing. No signs that anything had changed and no trouble at all. Maybe it’s because of all the miles we have put in or the fact that we have been training in lots of different places, but whatever the reason it was really cool to see.

In the past few weeks we have trained around town in various locations, down the Cape, and in Maine. Here are some pictures of our training last weekend while at a park up in Maine. This park was awesome. Not only was it right on the ocean, but it was full of distractions. Nothing too close, but all around us. I was really pleased with how well Chance did.  Along with conditioning his backup and practice load, unload, and greetings are all coming along.  I do need to figure out a way to set up narrows so we can practice that too.  Only 6 weeks to go til the tests start…….

 

After the training session we did a little photo shoot by the ocean