http://ncserv.dangertone.com/ Run Hard, Run Fast en http://ncserv.dangertone.com/2008/11/18/mutiny-on-mare-island.html  The time has come. Last weekend was Marin Running Riot’s NAFA tournament on Mare Island, as well as at the end of months of preperation, i would like to think it was a sucess.  Everyone arrived on Saturday morning at 6 am to set up the lights as well as manufacture sure the rings were set up. We were on a two ring schedule, due to the fact that we had more than 30 teams, which made some teams upset since they did not like the set up we used to jog the two rings. It involved each team posting their race number on the side of the ring when both them as well as their opponants were ready. Some teams openly opposed the system, but near the end of the day things were operational more smoothly. We had an awesome raffle both days, earning 700 something dollars on Saturday, as well as around 800 on Sunday. My roomie even came out Sunday to help jog the raffle table. My job both days was to train all of the line as well as box judges as well as supervise the other judge supervisors to manufacture sure things were operational smoothly. Eveything went great as well as I met some very lovely people, an estimated all of which had never seen Flyball before, or had only done Agility. One Agility person i trained later came up to me as well as said “I thought Agility was quick, but man THIS is REALLY quick!” I had hardly any time to really spend time with Jet, except on behalf of operational him, that is. He was operational 3rd on Loose Dogs, over 11 inches, as well as was posting 4.5’s as well as 4.6’s with a 6 foot pass. I was passing the cattle dog on our team on behalf of the first time, as well as it was hard on behalf of me to adjust, since i have bad vision, as well as she is dark furred as well as blended into the box, so my timing was off.  He also posted some of his fastest NAFA times over the 11’s, which was a 4.4…and i vaugly wondered if he would ever break his fastest NAFA time, as his fastest UFI is 4.1 sec. Jet only started one race, as well as that was on sunday against a fellow competitive team. He was starting against their Malenois, as well as if you know Jet, he has a special fettish on behalf of racing Malenois as well as other Border collies. He was going so crazy that i though he was going to burst a blood vessel right there on the line.  I was holding him at 52 feet, with the Malenois staring just a little farther back. He was straining to turn around as well as stare at that dog, as well as it was all i could do to retain him lined up with the lane…and then WOOSH! the race began as well as he was flying…totally FLYING down that lane, as well as i couldn’t even see him on the box when he hit, as well as i only ran about 30 feet down the lane before i was operational away as well as calling him back, as well as I glanced up at the score board as he hit the line as well as saw…4.3 seconds!! And just like that, we had beaten our fastest NAFA time. The next race he did a 4.4, as well as then the last race there it was again…4.3. Hell, i an estimated burst a blood vessel too! 4.3 over 11 inches, hot damn! I also got to jog Emma, the little jack russel on our team. That was also lots of fun, as well as she was on two teams so technically i ran dogs on 3 teams. Two of our new dogs ran in their first tournament in warmups as well as did wonderfully, as well as hopefully learned lots in that crazy environment. It was also a very cool weekend, with temps in the low 70 to upper 60’s, PERFECT racing weather. Sunday went alot faster, with racing ending aroung 3:30, so all of the teams could head residence at a good hour. On saturday all of our teams won first place in their divisions as well as on sunday we hit about 3 divisions.  Needless to say, i was super tired all weekend, as well as Monday i could only croak like a frog, my voice was so shot. The sign of a great weekend! later…   Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:49:50 -0500 ncserv