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@@NatalieEa100 it’s such a fun course! Perfect for Dizzy 🤩

@@Seanpikelocke1 thanks 🤍🖤

@@jimmcbride6297 Thanks 🤍🖤 there’s certainly a bit more to come off that time isn’t there!

@@tracieems616 Yesss! Get that matching team kit going 😁 It just shows what a long way 5k is even if you run it in 18 mins. There is always time to make up for a slip up. Dizzy’s last two km’s were amazing and faster than any previous race around this course. He closed it out and finished like an absolute pro.

@@oli73490 Thanks so much 🤍🖤 Amazing! what dog do you have?

@thatspottydogruns he's a pitt/Australian shepherd mix. He's only a year old and we just adopted him so I'm looking to find ways to exercise with him. 🤗

@ ah nice! You’ll have loads of fun 🤩

@@jimmcbride6297 thanks 🤍🖤 We’ve never had any interactions that have been properly negative. As you say Dizzy’s focus and temperament are excellent. So I never mind. Dizzy is actually quicker on a busy racecourse than in a time-trial environment anyway. Although recently there were reports of dogs getting bitten at the World Championships in Italy. Shockingly none of these actions resulted in disciplinary actions 😡 not sure how I’d feel in that scenario

@@thatspottydogruns Hopefully it is rare that blood is drawn between dogs (I have seen fur fly though). I would hate if muzzles were mandated from a few bad actors. The canicross crowd seems to have more temperamental dogs than the multidog sled dog teams I have seen. I wonder if this is because there is a more personal relationship when running behind your dog.

@ quite the opposite - muzzles are often banned at some of these events! I suspect the big teams don’t get a chance to interact as there is so much time between them on the trail. Canicross works best with close racing… it’s how humans work too 😁

@@tracieems616 Ha! we’d have finished 🥈 without it 🫣 YES! Can’t wait for that one 🤍🖤

@@harveypearson8497 Absolutely! We can’t wait… fastest course in the UK by my reckoning 🚀🐄

@ it was the first canicross race me and the doggo entered last year, hoping to go quicker and break 20 minutes by January!

@ awesome 🚀 it’s a tough one to place yourself at for that time. If you go too far forward in the queue everyone disappears off but if you go too far back you can get caught in traffic. I always look for people I know who are running a certain speed at the start and try and place myself around them.

@@cariboudle6915 Haha! very rare for cameo appearances to be of faces rather than the back of heads as we fly past in these videos 🤣🫢

@@MWalsh_NY Thanks 🤍🖤 you can get us on IG with @thatspottydogruns - we changed it once the team grew 😁

@@cariboudle6915 hahaha 🤣 of course my mistake!

@@geoffpirie4442 Thanks 🖤🤍 - I love your photos! They capture the joy on Dizzy’s face when he races (and the struggle on mine 🤣) We’ll be there in November, we’ll definitely give the series a go… you’ll be able to catch my pup Peggy before the end of the season too 😍

@@jogooding7380 Amazing! What breed is Bella? Raw Trails High Lodge is one of our favourite races 😍 We’ll be there in November so you’ll get a good feel for the course!!! We can’t do the December one but hopefully catch you both at another race soon 🤞🐾

I'd assumed it was Dizzy's heart rate!😅

@@spinklin Haha! Jogging with your dog is cheating don’t you know 👀🤣

@@willmartin5810 🤣🤣 - we reckon Dizzy’s max heart rate can go to well over 250bpm and he has a Vo2 max of 200+ … although I doubt he breaks a sweat with me in tow 😆

@@calder79 Thanks 🙏🤍🖤 Camera is a GoPro Hero 9 Black Race Metrics are done in Garmin VIRB edit 👍

@@thatspottydogruns You’re welcome, keep on creating great content! Starting to canicross myself in Sweden, so it’s motivating to look at your content. 😊 Will check out Garmin VIRB, thanks.

@@calder79 brilliant 🤩 let us know how you get on!!

@@danielleemond9209 I think I get what you mean. There are a number of ways you can get the dog to run with more focus and drive. Some simply get someone on a bike to ride out front so they have something to chase. Running with other dogs is also great as they really get the pack mentality and don’t want to stop and sniff. With Dizzy, I did interval training to train this. We started with really short intervals, 200-400m with loads of praise and fun. Then we gradually lengthened them out, he didn’t know we were going further, it just seemed like the same fun thing as always. Also, most dogs generally LOVE to race! Dizzy works a lot harder when we are racing compared to when we are training. So they might surprise you!!! Good luck - let us know how you get on 🖤🤍

@@bettysmissingfinger haha awesome! Lovely to see you guys again and we are hoping to get to newnham at some point 🤞

@@jimmcbride6297 thanks 🖤🤍🖤🤍 we’ll be doing our best 😁

@@Snailyandwhaley Thanks 🖤🤍🖤🤍

Interesting thought. I guess most people will get fitter and quicker as Canicrossing gets them more into running. Biomechanically, running with a dog is good for increasing your cadence too so you might find you get quicker as you are stronger and can move your legs faster. Plus all that cross country mud and hills will help too! But, Psychologically I know a lot of people find dogless running way harder now! So having the ability to push yourself right to the end could be diminished for sure. Of course it's such a different sport to dogless running it's actually tough to say. But most people I know (including world champions!) are getting quicker dogless.

@@SophieGorman 🤣 - I love it, they are good ones!!

@@cariboudle6915 definitely! She’s doing well with the recall, trying to overcome distractions from birds will be the big challenge!! She’ll be walking on a belt rather than me holding the lead for some walks before too long now too… maybe I’ll come and canitrek her in the Zombies sometime 🤔

@@thatspottydogruns we'd love to have her when she's old enough and frankly you walk quicker than I run so it will hardly be a challenge 😂

@@edvardcsontos709 🤍🖤🤍🖤

@@dogsofmischief 🤣🤣🤣 with the sound OFF 😆

@@thatspottydogruns 😂😂😂

@@cariboudle6915 🖤🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧡

@@-reky welcome! That’s brilliant, you guys are going to have so much fun! For filming I do all my race footage on a head mount, it’s a lot better than the chest mount which I find doesn’t produce great footage for running XC.

@@thatspottydogruns oh, thats a valuable info, thanks :) just have to overcome feeling of looking silly with something mounted on my head 😅

@@-reky we’ve started a mini revolution here, I see loads of people giving it a go at races now 😁🖤🤍

@@BrittsGeodeK9s Brilliant! It makes such a difference knowing you’re going to Canicross them from the beginning

@@lindacarter1449 Great! Yes this could be brilliant for you guys - can’t wait to see your 🚀🐄 out on the trails 🖤🤍

@@Mangohead75 Peggy is a Greyster, purpose bred for Cani-sports and racing!

@@thatspottydogruns I have a gsp and I can definitely see the pointer in her

@@Mangohead75 ah amazing! How old is your GSP? Yes, there is GSP mixed in a few generations back in her line. Then some other types of pointer and some greyhound even further back.

@@thatspottydogruns Hercules is 15 months. I also have a 3 year old springer spaniel. I started off lead running with Hercules at 10 months after talking to my vet.just short runs with plenty of stops . I will be looking to do longer runs with him in the autumn. Training him was easy as he just copied Waffle my esp

@@Mangohead75 brilliant! Yes, it’s all about building them up gradually. Let us know how you get on go a bit longer!!! Peggy will be focussing on the middle distance stuff and leave the long stuff to Dizzy!

@@cariboudle6915 in the depths of the Ashridge rainforest, which hasn’t seen dry weather since last September 🤔

@@thatspottydogruns September 1902 😭

@@cariboudle6915 🤣🤣🤣

@@jeremyringma Thanks for the brilliant tips 🖤🤍 It’s great to hear from people doing Cani sports all over the world as we all have such different conditions to do it in. Plus, this place 🌍 isn’t getting any cooler so as you say acclimation of dogs to warmer temperatures is going to be key to continuing these sports in the future!

@@TITHEAD90 Hi - great you want to get started. My best advice would be to start really short and simple. Make it really fun, and get them pulling for 100-200m with lots of encouragement and praise. Then gradually increase the distances each session. Keeping it short and fun sets the dog up to succeed and will help them learn what you are asking them to do! If you have someone who can go on a bike out front to act as the hare then you might be able to go longer and just keep encouraging them to run out front. Be patient and have fun 🖤🤍

@@tracieems616 we are hoping to go to the November one, the other two clash with national champs dates 😢

@thatspottydogruns Fingers crossed then for a great run. See you there!

Absolutely! He had a blast!!!

Thanks 🤍🖤

He absolutely loves it 🤩

Thanks! And thanks for watching 🖤🤍 we’ve actually since run this course again this year and ran 18:07! I run 5000m on a track in ~18:50-19:00, so teaming up with Dizzy takes a minute to maybe 90 seconds off my time on cross country courses like this. BUT… we are a slight anomaly with it being so close. Some of the men with bigger, faster dogs probably have around 90 seconds - 2 minutes knocked off… and the lighter Women CAN have up to 5 minutes knocked off their time by a powerful well trained racing dog! What type of dog are you running with?

@@thatspottydogruns Thanks for the breakdown, it is greatly appreciated. I am based in Canada and Canicross is just starting to gain traction here so videos like yours are a great help to learning about this sport. I've always ran with a dog but I didn't know they could be run like this. Now that I saw Canicross, I am excited to learn as much as I can!! I'm glad to learn what is realistic to expect by having your dog pull you. Your times are so fast (very impressive BTW) but I'm glad to know that it shaves off only 90-120 seconds. It gives me a more realistic as what to expect once my 50lb Coonhound is fully trained. She is about the size of your handsome Dalmation. That is crazy to learn that it can shave almost 5 mins off a smaller woman's times though. I'll have to get my dog hooked up to my wife once she's more trained :) Thanks so much for making these videos! I loved watching you and your dog during a race. Its a very unique and informative perspective And congrats on your even faster times!! Super impressive, to say the least!! Keep up the amazing work!!

@@TimLinklater thanks so much! All the best in your Canicross adventure!! Make sure you let us know how you are getting on 🤍🖤

This one was brilliant 🤩 courses are usually available to preview the day before yes. Some have different rules about taking your dog on the recce though so we don’t always do it. Plus it’s sometimes not practical arriving a day early to walk the course. If there’s something I feel I need to see to make a decision on I will, but otherwise we just run it for the first time in the race. Also, a few of them we’ve run in previous seasons… it’s amazing how Dizzy remembers the routes 🤯

Yeah, it’s such a fun and inclusive event! Dizzy was pretty pleased with himself 😁