NADAC Elite

Earlier this month, Zoe and I had a shot at the elite level of NADAC.  Now that we've done our three qualifying open-level runs, we can move up to elite - in just the regular class.  We only ran in three classes at Zumbro Falls, so it was a short day.  First was chances, which was really tough.  So tough that no one at the trial qualified.  I was still proud of Zoe's distance work and only struggled in one spot.  Unfortunately, any struggle is an NQ.  Anyways, our last two runs were elite regular runs.  The first one was absolutely beautiful.  Except for the fact that Zoe was running a bit slow, she did everything clean and didn't have to restart the weaves.  Despite this, we were still over time by 5 seconds.  Oh well, it was a beautiful run and I am thrilled that she ran with 100% focus.  The second run was great too, but she got spooked by a sound while weaving and we had to restart.  Other than that, it was great, but not clean.  Overall, I am very hopeful that we will be successful in the elite class.  We need to up the speed a bit, but she has shown speed before.  Our next NADAC trial isn't until November, so we've got a while to work on it!