We’ve been doing informal CaniX with Beanie and Biggles for some time now. (That’s really just a posh way of saying we shove a harness on them, attach it to a belt using a bungy and run! ). The idea is that the dog helps you to go faster by pulling you around the course. The dogs love it and you really pick up quite a bit of speed.
Beanie, Biggles and I running on the beach last year
We’ve just learned that Scotland will be having it’s first official CaniX race in April so we’ve all decided to enter. I’ll be running with Beanie and Paul with Biggly Boy. It’s a cross-country route along forest tracks.
Right now I’m probably capable of running to the end of the drive way and no futher. Six weeks to build that up to 5k! And as Beanie and Biggles have been doing all their running attached to Paul we’ll need to get them used to running separately.
Anyone fancy joining us?
Hi, Is this the one in Peebles. Iam planning to have a go at this too, it will be our first. My dog Kona is a labrador from working stock, she loves to run and has been running on harness for a couple of months now. I have no idea how we will get on but I am sure it will be a bit of fun.
Yep that’s the one. I’ve done a fair bit of running with Beanie & Biggles on the beach and that’s OK, but it could be absolute chaos in a forest setting. As you say though, it should be great fun!