Loughborough VI Sports

A blog about the ongoing project helping visually impaired children run,

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Woman with guide dog, playing with the Running Line.

We were lucky enough to get permission from this lovely lady to show some footage of her using the running line with her dog. The Running line was never intended to have a canine assistant, but she wanted to take her beloved dog “Quip” for a run. The dog while super excited was very confused by the whole ordeal.  Video Description The lady start to run, but the dog, Quip isn’t ready so she runs with the dog left behind. We then try again with the dog attention facing the right way. The lady runs with the dog and she reaches the end of the line. The dog however doesn't understand she was running a sort distance and drags the owner a bit further than expected. 

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Here is our go to video for explaining this project. It was originally made for a bid and none of the judges had any visual impairment so we didn’t add any audio. Hopefully at some point we can go back on this and correct it.