Friday, June 22, 2012

MACH Legend!

or more officially...

MACH Living in Fast Forward CD, RE, NF
This is the picture worth a thousand words (and way more than a thousand dollars too!).  So I don't have a lot to add other than the day couldn't have been more perfect.  Her runs were lovely, some of the fastest she has ever had and most of our friends were there to see it and in our hometown to boot.  

I do have some people to thank, as is customary after a significant achievement...

To all our training partners and instructors from Teacher's Pet and Paws Express for helping to get both Legend and I started in agility.  And special thanks to "Aunt" Marlene in heaven-I know she's proud of Legend today.

To all our "real life" agility friends for cheering us on all this time.

To all my blog readers out there following Legend's saga, some of you have been reading since Legend's first trial!

To Nebraska Border Collie Rescue and foster dad Scott-not only for giving me this great dog, but for saving her from the shelter.

To Cheri for her endless friendship, and especially all those long rides home where we discussed our dogs and their "issues."

To Jerry for putting up with all this insanity, and for spending many weekends holding the video camera while we were waiting on #20.

But mostly, thank you Legend.  It wasn't always easy, but it's always been worth it.  You are the hillbilly rock star, and I love you.

And since I don't think you can possibly have too many MACH pictures here is one more...

And here are the videos!

QQ #20 Part 1

Part 2!

17 comments:

Karissa said...

Woot! Way to go! Congratulations! :o) Lovely runs.

Bet you were happy to get that out of the way on the first day!!

Nicki said...

Yes I was! And thanks!

Melinda Wichmann said...

That is wonderful! HUGE congratulations!

Jim said...

Congratulations, Nicky and Legend! So happy for you and THANK YOU for all you do for animals!

Greg S said...

Big congratulations!! So when you got to about the Chute in that standard run, where you thinking "please dont screw it up"..."please dont screw it up"...

I know that's how my first MACH went. Nice runs to turn her into a champion!

Sue said...

Congratulations!!! I'm glad it happened on home turf.

Nicole said...

huuuuge congrats!!!!! awesome runs :)

Sara said...

It seemed like everyone in the place was holding their breath during the last run...

Congratulations! What a wonderful accomplishment, and what a fantastic team.

Elizabeth said...

Congratulations Nicki and MACH Legend!

Blue said...

Congratulations to you and Legend!!!

Valeri said...

Congratulations!!! You and Legend are such a great team!

Nicki said...

Greg-I knew when we got to the table we were in pretty good shape, but I didn't take anything for granted!

Sara-I think everyone was!

Thanks everyone!

Anonymous said...

Way to go Legend and Nicki. We have been waiting for this so long. Cannot wait to get to work on Monday to show everyone the video. Excellent video; cudos to Jerry for the steady hand in shooting the video.

Proud Dad & Mom

manymuddypaws said...

Congratulations!!! What a journey!

Diana said...

Congrats!!!! Thats so awesome!! And just great runs too. Whoohoo!!

Chris and Ricky said...

How awesome! Congratulations! I know how hard you and Legend have worked and no one deserves it more! I am very happy for you!

Crazy4CattleDogs said...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! (: Great Job.