Oiselle Blog

by Sally Bergesen Style Body movement. Therein lies happiness. And ladies amiright, all we really need is a sports bra and a pair of shoes ...

Team What is the meaning of team? We queried some of our Haute Volée: "What has team meant to you throughout your life? As you've pursued your a...

by Sally Bergesen When you graduate from college. When you graduate from self-doubt. When you stop trying to fix other people. When you need...

Training Volée team member Miranda Santee shares her prologue card, and the big goals she isn't afraid to chase. Last year I set the big, scary...

by Sally Bergesen Style Since their launch in 2016, Spandos have celebrated the bold and the beautiful; the fun and the fierce. And while i...

by Sally Bergesen Style Hello Friends, STORY is our theme – and rallying cry – for 2018. This past weekend, we kicked off STORY by ...

Team In 2017, I reached a lifetime goal: qualifying for my 2nd USA Marathon Olympic Trials. Not only did I qualify, but I also ran a solid PR (...

Training Every goal tells a story. Every goal has a past, a present, and a future. It comes with baggage from where you once were, grounds you ...

Training In Mels's first Road to Fast she described her early HS years and what it was like to be a "HS phenom." Now we get to dive in on how sh...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Training Lesko: Devon! I'm excited to catch up on your plans. I know when we were co-cheering at CIM, you were jus...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Team We are absolutely thrilled to welcome professional runner Allie Kieffer to the Oiselle family. Allie is a run...

by Steph Willett Team 2018: The Year of Team! As we reflected back on 2017, the stories that stuck were all from our meetups: races, Birdca...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Social Team has always been at the center of everything we do at Oiselle. So naturally, back when the Volée was bor...

Sally: One of my favorite my favorite racing memories of you was the Olympic Trials Marathon in 2012. That was a crazy race, coming down to you,...

Style BY: NELLE HORSLEY, Oiselle Designer I can’t actually remember the first time I saw Leah Goren's work, but you know that feeling when you s...

by Sally Bergesen Life's better with a goal. Not just because they stick up like a telephone pole on the horizon, but also because they help...

by Sally Bergesen Social I’m an Anne Lamott fan, and there are two passages from her book, Bird by Bird, I have always held dear: “Thirty ...

Social We are proud to say we have had another wonderful year at the Nest. We’ve shared wins from hosting our first race, to growing our run co...

by Hannah Calvert Style A big thanks to our community for always sharing their best flystyle mixes and matches. Here are just a few of our f...

Training Hey O!  This is it friends our last TNFC of 2017! We did it. You did it. Week after week, you showed up. You tried new routes and luck...

by Kara Goucher Social From falling back in love with running, to receiving a silver medal, to hosting another running retreat, the past yea...

by Lauren Fleshman Social Welcoming a baby girl into the world, adding to the Picky Bar line, and the returning to the familiar feeling of a...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Social Every year has a different flavor, and a different end-of-year feeling. 2017? Well, I’ll classify it as a gr...

Social   Oiselle has always believed in putting athletes on the runway. Real athletes. Real apparel. We first went to NYFW in 2013 (remember Lau...

by Steph Bruce (aka. Stephanie Bruce) Team It has been Oiselle’s absolute honor to sponsor Stephanie Rothstein Bruce since 2014. From her r...

Social In the call to write a company’s annual recap, is also a call to remain perfectly centered, unimpeachably rational, and – often for wome...

Team BY: KENDRA CHAMBERS Change.  It can be scary. Change is defined as: to give a different position, course, or direction to. Some people hat...

Team “I run because I can. When I get tired I remember those who can’t run, what they give to have this simple gift I take for granted, and I r...

Team We love cheering on fast masters! These athletes are consistently pushing the boundaries of what we think is possible as we age. Christy Pe...

by Hannah Calvert Team #FlyCIM was my very first cowbell corner experience and yes, yes it did live up to the hype. Once drumsticks were pul...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Team Britney Henry, hammer thrower and human extraordinaire, is announcing her retirement from track and field. Br...

Racing BY: SARAH BARD A few weeks ago, I traveled to the Run the Rock race at Smith Rock in Terrebonne, Oregon. There were three trail races, a ...

by Erin Taylor Training We all know that working out gets results. What most of us overlook is that working in also gets results. Runners a...

Racing I had an obnoxious taper week before CIM, all my taper runs were significantly slower than my usual recovery pace, my legs were super he...

Racing I'm still having a tough time coping with what happened on Sunday. I write this because I think it’s important to acknowledge how you ar...

Style We would never play favorites. Oops, we just did! “You know those cozy super soft blankets that feel like butter that you just melt und...

Racing I don’t know any marathoner who didn’t watch this year’s New York City Marathon and get teary eyed watching Shalane Flanagan run a gutsy...

Racing   Get ready world... (and podium), these women are comin' for ya! First off, let it be known that the competitive fire burns BRIGHT. With...

Racing The California International Marathon is coming up this Sunday, December 3rd. That means that over 9,000 runners are going to be looking ...

by Steph Bruce (aka. Stephanie Bruce) Training With CIM quickly approaching it's not hard to believe that if you are racing you have spent a...

Racing Oiselle is thrilled to be traveling en masse to Sacramento this weekend for CIM shenanigans! We'll be at the Expo (come check us out at b...

Team BY: LINDSAY WALTER I was born with a head of beautiful red hair, but then by age two it began to all fall out. First it was in small chunks...

Racing BY: ALI SCHULTZ Oh boy I’m sooo sore!! Like my first marathon all over again! I'll be honest running my first 50 miler was really tough....

by Sally Bergesen Brand When it comes to the US economy, small is big. Across the US, small businesses drive the lion's share of job growth,...

Brand   Hello Friends and Family, We like to say running is a gift and our community is magic. It was true when we founded the company ten year...

by Steph Bruce (aka. Stephanie Bruce) Training It’s been two weeks since I raced the NY Marathon. Somehow, it feels like it was both yesterd...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Training Prep phenom Marie (Mel) Lawrence was one of the nation's most highly recruited HS runners going into colle...

Racing This weekend was a big weekend for trail running! It marked the end of the season for many athletes before the holidays and a period of d...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Brand Hard to believe it’s already Thanksgiving week! And what a great prompt for us to give thanks to all of you f...

Meet Karen! Our Kara Goucher Podium Retreat Winner! I think it’s safe to say that we enjoyed giving her the call saying she won, as much as she...