03/09/2025 - 450yd VST track

450 yds at business park,  run at 20-25 min, 50* and sunny. Used HITT on non-veg.

• Geese came to greet me at car and then walked across track back to lake lawn ( this meant lots of fun scents, visual distractions, goose poop everywhere)
• Laid 2nd leg, and 2nd to last leg by building (this was new for her)
• Article 1 was metal, article 2 was novel fabric, article 3 was leather, article 4 was plastic. Others were fabric
• Laid with higher food drop reinforcement in NV last 100 yds.

How it went:

• Start/1st turn was distracted somewhat by Geese. Nice tracking on leg 2
• She was sensitive to the exit doors and scent at building (2:00) - will try this again to see if it's consistent
• She didn't care about the metal article (does well with it at house) - 2:34
• She ate goose droppings a lot on first 2 legs! 😔
• Great transition into NV for second part of Leg 2.
• Beautiful indication of teal headband (fully novel) -5:02
• Then she got stuck big time when we restarted. (5:35-9:30). Though she initially looked left down the next leg, she really pulled to go backwards. We worked it for about 5 min and I tossed food onto track to entice her, gave water. This felt a lot like turn 3 from day before in the field... pattern? I think the geese had walked through there shortly before we ran the track.  
• Once we made turn onto leg 3, nice tracking and leather article indication. (10:15)
• Next turn was along a raised mulch median where concrete curb met asphalt. This was hard for her... (11:00-12:00) Will try this again.  Eventually made turn to lake and then Holy moly... the Geese!
• She looked up and saw Geese (12:25) and wanted to bolt when they scurried. She spooked them off and I used food scatters a few times (she had great response to “SCATTER!”). The track went up into the lawn about 5yds and then took a right to the sidewalk. After investigating the storm drain to the left of the track, she went back to work. She ended up enthusiastically cutting that corner (13:15) but I was ok with that because she was clearly priorizing the track over the Geese at that point!
• Great plastic article indication just after the Geese debacle! (13:40)
• The rest of the track went pretty well. The leg after the plastic article I had stepped on the grass edge and she stayed true to the track. She didn't want to down at the next article bc she made a pit stop closeby but she did a 180 after a moment and downed. 
• In the curved sidewalk/ driveway, she got pulled up to the building a few times but corrected back independently. 
• Slight overshoot on final turn but quick LOS and recovery. 
• She collapsed at the end article! 

3 things that went well:

1. Working past Geese/ prioritizing the track!!
2. Track endurance!  She did a big X track the day before and this was by far the longest V track she's done by about 150 yds
3. Some nice transitions to NV

3 Things to work on:

1. Buildings (this was her first time)
2. Restarts after article (common w X issue)
3. Metal articles. I think she's more motivated after a bit more of the length so will put metal later on to see if she still misses it.