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Love on the Run
Sarah | February 13, 2012 7:03 pm
This Saturday Oiselle Headquarters showed love for the run at the 'Love em or Leave em' 5k at Green Lake. Kristin, team Oiselle manager and Sally made up team Icarus 2.0. While I had the honor of trying my best to chase down Oiselle team superstar, Jen Bigham's, blonde ponytail to complete team Big Mac Attack (BIGham, MACkay...). Both Icarus 2.0 and Big Mac Attack won our respective combined age group for women!
I love the team names haha. Especially "Our Buns are .... BOOM Baby" So many silly team names. And this shows you how the scoring was done, basically they add your ages up to get your division, then add your time up. So we were 58 and ran 34:51. Which would actually be pretty dang sweet. New life goal?
Kristin had to skip out before awards, so we carried her loot for her. What a fun race!Did you run a Valentine's Dash?
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There's a Hole in The 'Hood
sally | March 4, 2011 9:02 am
There’s a hole in our ‘hood. It’s across the street from the Oiselle office and it’s an entire city block. About 4 years ago, it was the home to Vitamilk, a local dairy that used it as a distribution center. But then land prices skyrocketed and the prime piece of land one block from Green Lake became too valuable for the dairy. So they sold it to developers to turn it into condominiums. Hole digging ensued. And then in mid-2008, the real estate bubble burst and construction halted. So we’ve had this hole for two and a half years. We walk by it. We peer into its abyss. We wonder when the recovery will spur action.
Which got me thinking. Condos are fine and good. But c’mon Seattle, what else you got? What do we WANT to see in this space, rather than settle for? A park? A climbing wall? A food cart village, a la Portland? A farmer’s market? Affordable housing? A Green Lake activity center? An indoor running track? (Okay, even I admit there’s limited civic appeal to that last one). No matter what, it seems that somewhere – between dairy distribution and another condo building – there could be something amazing. Something as amazing and cool as Green Lake itself. What would you build in the hole?
chris | Saturday, March 5, 2011 - 00:16
An outdoor heated salt water swimming pool and I mean 100 degrees :)