Off-Season Talk

PLANNING YOUR OFF-SEASON

Gemma Osmond

Friday 2nd October 2009
7.30pm for 8.00pm
Prince of Orange Pub,
17, High St, Yatton, Bristol, Avon BS49 4JD
£5 per person

The agility year works in a cycle of pre-season, competition season and off-season. Roughly speaking the off-season runs between October – December, and this is where the bulk of any re-training work should be done.

Working out where you need to begin can be overwhelming if you’ve been disappointed with your performance throughout the competition season. But a good place to start is by answering the following questions:

• Have you enjoyed competing with your dog this year?
• Were you successful and achieve what you wanted to this year?
• Did you start the year with a clear idea of what it is you wanted?
  

This talk is designed to get you thinking about the ‘why’ behind your answers to these questions. Once we can work out the ‘why’, we can better plan your goals and aspirations for the 2010 competition season, and what you need to use your off-season for.

The beauty of being in a club is people around you for support, through cheering at the good times to commiserating at the bad. My aim is that by sharing our hopes and disappointments, we can better support each other in planning and achieving our goals.

Things to bring:

• Pen and notebook
• Record of competition results this year if available