lavaduke

I couldn't run that far if my life depended on it :D We had two runners on Saturday and one person made it the whole way and the other elected to ride the last approx 6kms. I bike my dogs 3 times a week and slowly increase the amount of kilometres I do and also make sure to use all the different surfaces required, swim them fortnightly and walk about 10kms each day (not on the days we bike) with lots of free running to keep their endurance levels up. Sounds like your dog will have no problems with the distance if you both jog together regularly. Good luck and let us know how you go :p Thanks for the advice wolfgirl. I've just come down with a flu/sore throat so that stuffs my run training for a few days! And my running partner (who was also going to enter her dog) is having second thoughts, so I may not be ready in 6 weeks after all. I'll see how the next couple of weeks go before I commit.

Congrats to all the ETers too. I've just decided to enter my mini schnauzer (nearly 3yrs) in the Dogs NSW Endurance test on 9 August. That gives us 6 weeks to get ready. I'm going to jog rather than ride and we currently jog fairly regularly about 8km at a time. Does anyone have any tips about how best to build the kms over the next 6 weeks? How often did everyone train their dogs? Did you run them more than 3 times a week? For how long? Dos & don'ts? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

This is also what my vet told me yesterday when I took Duke, my 16 wk old puppy, for his vaccinations. Duke has been cocking his leg since he was 12 weeks old and now very rarely squats!

Thanks again to Lucy'sRun for my lovely new signature!!!

Hi there Could someone combine the following four photos to make a really simple signature for me? If possible, I'd like the photos to appear in one line without any borders or backgrounds - just flowing from one to the other (hope this makes sense!). Lava Duke Thanks so much in advance!