Mile 1

 I continue to introduce Booker to running.  He is a straight up disaster on mile 1.  He is distracted and unfocused.  He thinks nothing of veering out in front of me while we run.

But today something amazing happened.  He got it.  What do I mean?  I mean that he actually got into the groove of running next to me, at my pace, and just settling in.

I was so happy.  And then we ran into Marc and Sisko.  We were passing them as they walked and needless to say Booker had no interest in continuing to run without them.  He turned into a crazy man - leaping into the air, pawing at the leash and generally fighting me as I tried to get him to continue on as he tried to stay with Sisko.

Booker is our 5th Boxer and he is, by far, the most high strung boy we've had.  I'll talk about that in another post, soon.

Eventually as they faded from sight, he got back into a happy run with me and we made it 6.5 miles.  

He is strong and athletic so he runs great - it is the mental challenge that he hasn't completely conquered yet.