03.02.16

morning run:
Blue
Godzilla
Chester
Frankie
Daisy
Hazel
Murci
Roxy
Junebug
(9)

Southern charcos: ~8k. Roxy scrwed around early on the first trail, probably because portions of it have been burned recently; she finally caught up but it was irritating and she was on the second leash from there on (June was obviously on the whole way). Daisy and Frankie don't like to go this far; they're perfectly capable of doing it, they just like to screw around too much in the rearguard and only pick up the pace when they get ridiculously behind. Since I don't like them getting that far behind this drags the speed of the whole group down... they both prefer shorter beach runs anyway. Other than the lagging by those two this was a good run. June freaked out a little when we ran into Chino on his bike just south of the shack as we were coming home via the blue.bag trail; I got down on the ground with her and held her to force her to see that nothing bad was going to happen as Chino passed us by. Nobody else reacted to him and June was quickly over it. These are the kinds of things that have to happen more often before we can trust her off the leash. Murci's insane enthusiasm well exceeds the demands of a mere 8k run - she has to run 10k at least before she's a little tired. I put her on the other end of the leash with June coming home on the coco trail just to keep her honest and then switched her for Frankie before the shrimpery because she's the most likely to bark at someone on a bike. Everyone was good to the gate.
GRADE: A