I'm still running !

I've managed to keep my human motivated and despite the lack of hills I'm averaging over 23 km of running each week and some walks as well.  There are no 'real' races to enter at the moment but we took part in a virtual running challenge on 13th June.  This was the the Hawarden Estate Trail Virtual Solo Challenge, normally held at Hawarden the event was run from your own location with the aim of covering as much distance as possible in 2 hours.  

After an early start to avoid the heat of the day I managed a very respectable 18.92 km of running, just pipped into 2nd place by a runner who managed 19.6 km!  There were only three solo runners as most of the entries ran as teams of three in a relay type race and I don't know if any other dogs took part.  I loved it and got a medal for taking part.

The run was over fields and tracks with just a few short road sections, the most difficult part of the run was where the path crosses a field of long grass, the grass was taller than a terrier so it was really hard work.  Such hard work that when I got home I had a lovely snooze...

The next challenge is a virtual 5 km CaniCross on 12th July so I'm training for that now, I hope the grass is cut before then !

Wags & Woofs,

Dexter.