Whatcha got?

5K race and it was a bit slower than the prior one, but not by much. Hillier but better paced.

Ugh, I didn't mention that while hanging out with the running group at the beer tent, a wasp or yellowjacket stung me. Inside the arm. It's not swollen but the red area burns. FFS.

We’re back on the road. Camping at a lake north of Durango at 11,000 feet. Any higher elevation and we’ve learned our heater doesn’t work, so glad it fired up when DH tested it!

The Colorado Trail goes right by here, but I am exhausted from dog wrangling. Will go for a little run tomorrow and call this a cutback week.

Nice job on the race Damaris!

5 miles this morning. Another fall-like morning.

 

BerthaSlayer, is it one union for the US companies but one for each of the Canadian ones?

 

Docket, nice job on the 5k. Ouch on the sting.

 

AnonymousGuest, enjoy the camping.

The two unions split decades ago. Both have similar goals but differ in how they try to achieve them. For example, the UAW have always fought for profit sharing while we opted for COLA increases which normally are more guaranteed (although many over here want profit sharing as well or at least a hybrid). The US side  has the UAW representing the 3 major companies and the Canadian side has Unifor (formerly the CAW) representing the three companies. Contracts at all three end at the same time and TYPICALLY the respective unions choose one company to potentially strike first, make a bargain and then go to the next company and so on. It's the same union for each company. However this time, the American UAW are using a new strategy and striking all three at the same time which is very unusual. Our side is continuing with one at a time. I honestly have no idea how this will end. Pay increases and the elimination of the two tiered system are always what get mentioned in the news but I also feel that it's the benefits we gave up in 2009 that people want to see return or at least some of them (and they were substantial). Not to mention that retirees haven't seen any increase since then. It's frustrating and I get a lot of anxiety at contract time for obvious reasons. I really hope cooler heads prevail and any strike doesn't last long because nobody ever recoups their finances from a prolonged strike.

Happy weekend to all.  I volunteered at a trail race today and then visited my dad after.  Pooped even though I didn't run.

Lori, I was wondering if the strike here affected you.  I hope it's resolved without too much drama, but that's probably not likely.

Damaris, nice race other than the bee sting.

Karen, you're up pretty high!  But sounds nice being by the CO trail.

HCK, nice miles, yay for fall weather.

So, remember the yellowjacket sting? It's taken half of my arm. Now it fucking itches. It hasn't gotten better quickly like many friends told me it would. It looks like a bad reaction to my allergy shots.

I ran 10.