Dang Steeplechase

SUMMARY: Dang Steeplechase.

I thought for a moment that Tika had completed her Tournament Master Gold this weekend, but noooo-- she needs one more Steeplechase for that. Faugh! We cannot run a clean steeplechase to save our lives. We also have earned only one Steeplechase Q in the last year and a half. For us, it's not the TIME; she's plenty fast enough as the following table shows. It's just that, when she's between 0 and 5 seconds under time, we earn a 5-point fault, which (scoring on time plus faults) puts us out of the running; when she is more than 5 seconds under time so that we actually have room for a 5-point fault, she earns 10 faults. And, gadzooks, the couple of times that we haven't earned faults--we run past a thing or two, wasting enough time to put us over time!

We are so bloody consistent in our failure strategy! I wish I could be so consistent n a SUCCESS strategy!

Here it is in ugly black and white since September 2006. I say again, faugh!

Qual	our time	SCT	under time by (Neg=over)	faults	notes	best time
n	36.4	40.19	n/a	E	offcourse	31.71
n	34.44	40.46	6.02	10	2 bars	32.13
n	41.76	38.42	-3.34		ran beyond Afr and past a tunnel (lots of wasted time)	29.84
n	37.3	43.05	5.75	10	2 bars	32.65
n	39.98	39.04	-0.94		bobbled BOTH weave entries	30.1
Q	39.68	40.43	0.75		bobbled one weave entry	31.64
n			n/a	E	offcourse
n	32.96	37.92	4.96	10	2 bars	29.61
n	34.51	35.66	1.15	5	bar and pulled her past a jump (wasted time)	27.59
n	28.86	35.2	6.34	10	hit broad & bar	26.94
n	30.69	32.72	2.03	5	popped Afr	24.82
n			n/a	E	offcourse
n	37.24	37.29	0.05	5	bar	28.95