Late start, missed shot

It looked pretty iffy at 7:30am and then it started to rain.  The radar showed a green blob heading toward us.  I was pretty tired and moving pretty slow.  By the time I had tea, then coffee, breakfast, showered, etc.  It was 10:30am and clear!  Plus, I still had the birds trapped up in the loft (not allowing them into the aviary) so they would be easy to box.  So I did.  Still on schedule after all!  I'll have them across the river Monday! 

As I headed down the driveway, a Cooper's Hawk left the tree just in time to fly over us slowly, as if to say "I'll be here when you get back!"  Just before I got to the drop point - another Cooper.  Ewww. 

Anyway, they seemed to handle today's 12 miles pretty easily - taking off in the correct direction with little circling.  They were lounging around in the grass when I got back.  I shoo'd them up into the air.  I'm still free-lofting them and haven't started trapping them in yet.  I'll start that next week sometime.  I still have to get electronic bands on them and get them entered into the computer. 

So 2x2.5 miles, 2x6 miles and tomorrow 2x12 miles will be down!  Then 2x14, 3x23 and 3x42 and 1x64 and I will be done with the road training.  After that, I'll alternate 42 & 12 for conditioning and break point training until race night.