Adventures in lure coursing

This weekend I took Epic to Oklahoma for Fast CAT lure coursing.  It's basically a 100 yard dash where they chase a lure (a plastic bag on a fully) down the track.  The nice thing is that there is no training for this.  Dogs either have the chase/prey drive to run or they don't.  Technically you could teach your dog to want to run after the bag but that didn't really seem like a worthwhile way to spend training time to me.  But Epic had no issue chasing!  He took one look at the lure moving and it was game on.  And he got progressively more excited as the weekend went on.  We had 4 runs and he's well on his way to a title with his fastest run being 8.61 seconds and the neighborhood of 23-24 mph.

Anxiously waiting his turn

 Beautiful morning

 Fall photo set up!

Friday night some friends and I went to the Miranda Lambert concert her in Springfield.  I had actually forgotten about this when I entered the trial so ended up getting up at 5 AM to drive to Oklahoma Saturday morning.  But it was worth it!

 The usual suspects

 Other girls from work who were also at the concert

And finally here are some photos from last week at nose work!