Because I live in the boonies, my copy hasn’t come in the mail yet, but for those of you who get Clean Run, check out my article in the Sept 07 issue on help for the spatially inept. It’s my first (of I hope many) pieces for the magazine. If you’re checking out the blog for the first time after reading that article, welcome.
I didn’t have space in the magazine to tell the whole story, but I really am spatially challenged. I’m terrible at judging lengths and distances. I’m quite bad at answering my husband’s near-constant home improvement questions along the lines of “Does this look straight?” When I’m running a sequence of obstacles, I often losing my sense of left and right.
It’s really kind of sad, but also funny.
Honestly, the first time I tried to do a front cross, I did a blind cross instead, and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out the difference between what I was being told to do and what I was actually doing.
As humbling as that was, it gave me insight into training Lilly and the many, many times I’m clearly not making any sense to her. She’ll shoot me a look, and sometimes bark in a specific way, that says “I don’t know what you want.”
It’s a little different than Stink Eye. It’s more like … “You crazy lady, mommy.”
Granted, this is very likely a green handler issue. I’m learning as we go, and poor Lilly comes along for the ride. Still, I was happy to learn in my research for the article that it very well be some brain developmental deficiencies that make really seeing the course so hard for me.
Perhaps I’m not the only one. I hope you liked the article. Holler if you have any questions.
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