I was just wondering if anyone made goals for their dogs and themselves for agility competitions?

My oldest (and 1st agility dog) has just turned 3 and has been competing for a year now and is in Grade 2.
My youngest is 14 months and will be ready to compete when he is 18 months and measured.

I'm hoping to get the oldest (Izzie) up into Grade 3 in the upcoming season which means I would be started George (youger dog) at Grade 2 or 3.

Does anyone else have long term goals? Izzie is a very steady paced dog, apart from when she wants to be, but George has a lot of power and I'm hoping I could take him quite far.

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My goal is to have a great working partnership with my dog, and for us to have fun training and competing.

I had planned, when I started competing with Kite, that she'd stay in grade 3 so we could do the nice flowing courses indefinitely. As she's in large but is a small large dog, it seemed reasonable as she can't cover the ground like the bigger dogs do. My older dog Ziggy is medium grade 6, and I'm sick of the twisty, naggy courses we have to do. As she's got older and slowed down, I normally only enter her in 1-7 or 4-7 type classes now.

Unfortunately for me Kite won a grade 3 agility after 4 months competing. The next week she won another! We've had some decent places in grade 4, including 3-5 combined classes and last show a place in 1-7 combined, so she will have beaten quite a number of grade 6 and 7 dogs. I'm quite happy with that, but not at all sure I'd want her to go beyond grade 5.