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I'll be in Sydney until the 18th, guess it will depend on if she would still be able to do it with a week off being biked. I'll go look at the fitness schedule thing to see what they do in the second last week bike wise

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I'll be in Sydney until the 18th, guess it will depend on if she would still be able to do it with a week off being biked. I'll go look at the fitness schedule thing to see what they do in the second last week bike wise

I'd say she'll be absolutely fine - the bulk of your training and conditioning is done earlier on and over a long period. I'm pretty sure rory only got one ride each of the last couple of weeks.

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I'll be in Sydney until the 18th, guess it will depend on if she would still be able to do it with a week off being biked. I'll go look at the fitness schedule thing to see what they do in the second last week bike wise

I'd say she'll be absolutely fine - the bulk of your training and conditioning is done earlier on and over a long period. I'm pretty sure rory only got one ride each of the last couple of weeks.

Yeah I think if she is ready for it before I leave, then I'll just pick it up again in the last week, it's not like she will be sedentary in Sydney anyway.

The schedule reckons they do 12km bike a day with a longer ride once a week, but they are woossy GSDs :p :rofl:.

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Good grief - most people I know wouldn't do more than 6 or 8 km in one training ride - and then only two or three times a week. I gradually build up distance over a few weeks - and speed, and then vary the speed and the distance, on the basis that the test itself isn't 20km in one hit - it's 8, 6 and 6, with breaks in between. I ended up having trained quite a bit at about 12-13 kph, just in case (sometimes judges will take the first leg out a bit faster and bank a bit of time in case of accidents.) As it happened, in Rory's test it was pretty much 10 kh the whole way - a bit uncomfortably slow :rofl:

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ST, hopefully Ari is feeling better soon :(

RosieFT, good to hear you weren't imaginging things - hopefully she is all better soon as well!

In terms of ET... Non-GSD can do the ET in September. In fact I think even the test that they do is open to other breeds ;)

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in Rory's test it was pretty much 10 kh the whole way - a bit uncomfortably slow :rofl:

In the very small amount of biking my girls have done, I haven't taken them over 6-7km/hr... I need to build them up to that!! We've done 2-3km's at that speed at that's it. I'm so slack!

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In terms of ET... Non-GSD can do the ET in September. In fact I think even the test that they do is open to other breeds ;)

I asked about this earlier in the year and noone could give me a definitive answer, and alluded to the fact it was only for GSD's. Sure, I didn't actually phone the organizer to find out first hand, but still :p

I hope it's open to all breeds, then I can maybe do the other dog later on. Though very doubtful I will make it to one as my previous attempts at training for it have all been failures!

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I use a harness for mine ST - prefer to have what pulling there might be more evenly distributed. they use their tracking harnesses - doesn't seem to confuse them. :)

Here ya go

The dog must wear a fixed collar or suitable harness. No neck chains, slip collars, spiked

collars, muzzles or head control collars shall be permitted.

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St hope Ari is ok and feeling better.

I want to do the ET i know i said that last year but yeah well i want to do it with squid, how do you know how fast you are going? have you got attachments for the bike or something?? well maybe i better get a bike first PMSL

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Hope Ari is ok ST big hugs for her and pls post back and let us know what's happening

I won't do ET with either of mine, even of I could physically do it myself i think it's just too taxing on the body for large breed dogs but that's just my opinion...

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