I just wanted to pop in and say that this past weekend, I finally got brave enough to try the distance challenge in regular, and the bonus box in jumpers. Now, I went in to this knowing it was going to be tough for my dog and I, and that it would likely take away a Q we could earn. But I didn't care, I was doing it for the challenge, for fun. It was double run, so I got to try it twice.
The first round of regular, I found out where we struggled. And that was ok! Rather than make it clean for a Q (minus the DC), I stayed where I was and had him take jumps over (just a couple) to get back in the flow, and at the end, he didn't get the right obstacle at the discrimination, but I went with what he took (because I'm positive he went where I directed him on accident!). So on round 2, I again stayed in the DC area, except those two spots, where I went in to help him out. We did Q that round, but that wasn't why I went in to help him, I knew what we were and weren't capable of so I figured I would help him out. But even when we take things incorrectly, it's not my dog's fault, so we just roll with it

On jumpers, we didn't Q either time, and that's ok. Again, I sent him back over a couple jumps to get the line right so I could handle it better, and he did great

(I also went with him at the end, as that was beyond our current capabilities).
But anyhow, my point of this post was, I finally decided to go for it, with no expectations other than fun and a challenge, and those four runs were some of the funnest runs I've ever had! I only wish I asked someone to video the regular runs (again, I wasn't doing this for the points, I was doing this to see what we could do, so I didn't bother). But I did get a volunteer for the jumpers videos at least

Just in case you'd like to watch... in round 1, me throwing my hands up was when I said, what the heck am I doing? I had one of those brain fart moments haha

And at the end, I ran out of space to move, my bad (plus, that was a little beyond our current capability, to keep going that far while I"m back... but if I didn't get myself stuck, it would've been better). In round 2, I got myself stuck and wasn't able to keep him going to the tunnel, my bad... and at the end I just went with him more so he wouldn't be confused

I look forward to working on some things I learned from this, and continuing to try some DC and bonus boxes for fun!