Oiselle Blog

by KMet (aka. Kristin Metcalf) Team It has been almost a year since I stepped away from my position as team manager at Oiselle to coach aga...

Team BY: MAGGIE SMITH Photo by: Carly Reis The package was on the floor when I got home. I gave it a wide berth and pretended to ignore it. The ...

by Sally Bergesen Brand Back when I was doing my research on the idea of a Powersuit, I came across the Notorious RBG Tumblr and fell in lov...

by Hannah Calvert Training One of the best ways to build a solid foundation for running is to recognize the importance of the building block...

Training BACK FROM THE ARCHIVES! This blog may be from early 2014, but dynamic warm ups never lose relevance. So, if you've been on a drill hiat...

Team Normally I dread breaks. I don’t like taking time off even though I need to. I rely on my runs as my daily “me” time. I feel like I'm miss...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Social High School Cross Country! You're all about team, running hard, having fun, and being weird! We've got some ...

by Megan Murray (aka. Meg) Brand A Brief Look At The History Of Pockets In Women's Apparel Pocket Jogger Tights Pockets. How we love them. T...

by Kara Goucher Team Whenever stages of my running begin anew, there have always been difficult periods of transition and anxiety that go a...

by Hannah Calvert Social The hype around The Kara Collection refuses to quit and it's not hard to guess why. Kara is pretty epic, so natural...

by Sally Bergesen It all started with Rundies: day of the week underwear for runners. Let's be honest, those put us on the map (and what wom...

by Hannah Calvert Brand Kara Goucher isn't just a professional runner... (as if being a 2 x Olympian, World Silver Medalist wasn’t impressiv...

by Steph Bruce (aka. Stephanie Bruce) Training It’s the beginning of September, which means cross country teams around the country are quic...

by Beth Baker Team At 26, I had a mid-20’s crisis… It’s a thing, really. I realized I wasn't good at anything. I skirted around hobbies and ...

Racing BY: DEVON YANKO If there is one thing in life that is constant, it is that everything will change. Sometimes things just gently refine, s...

by Hannah Calvert Social Excuses, excuses, excuses. Oh how you make it so easy to disregard our strict training plans to opt for rogue days ...

by Kelly Roberts Training Excuses, we all have them! Sometimes they’re unavoidable like staying up all night with a sick kid or working to m...

by Steph Bruce (aka. Stephanie Bruce) Training Last year when I was around 8-month post partum I was starting to see the light. I had recent...

Social Kelly Bjork is a local Seattle artist. She launched a stationery goods studio, Pilgrim Paper Co. this past December with her partner and ...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Racing One of the epic stories of the world is the hero returning home. Steph Rothstein Bruce started her journey ...

Team BY: COLLIER LAWRENCE “I don’t care about the bread, I care what’s in the sandwich.” Lauren Fleshman has a knack for analogies; especially ...

by Sally Bergesen Brand Everyone knows about the 4 minute mile. And Roger Bannister is a household name. But we had to ask ourselves, what’...

by Hannah Calvert Racing The people have spoken! Here are the favorite races gathered from Volée, Haute Volée, and everyone that shared with...

by Megan Murray (aka. Meg) Style Working at Oiselle comes with quite a few perks: Calling Lauren Fleshman a creative partner. Getting to ta...

by Jess Barnard Brand Charlotte Austin splits her time between working as an adventure writer and an international mountain guide... she's b...

by Lauren Fleshman Racing In 2007 at USATF Outdoor Champs, Lauren Fleshman walked off the track mid-race. She shares her story of doubt, de...

Team BY: LINNABAH SNYDER On the Navajo reservation, there is an awareness that running is part of our culture. We run early in the morning whil...

How many stories Do we tell ourselves When the moon Eclipses the sun? When our plans Have come undone, And we sit Examining mirrors In t...

by Sally Bergesen Style I credit my mom for instilling in me a somewhat ridiculous appreciation for quality. Growing up, we didn’t have the ...

Team This year, Mel Lawrence was on a roll. She PR'd in 4 events: 2:05.89 800, 4:11.34 1500, 9:34.94 3K Steeple, and a 15:40.18 5K. Woman has go...

Team “People may call what happens at midlife “a crisis,” but it’s not. It’s an unraveling – a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the ...

by Hannah Calvert Brand We are more than excited to see the fall line out into the world to be run in, sweat in, or… sitting on the couch in...

by Hannah Calvert Training Today we are celebrating Flyte. And Flight. For some, flight evokes a fear that leaves them white knuckled sittin...

by Jess Barnard Team Kristina Owsinski is a boss. PAC-12 Champion in Pole Vault 2015, PAC-12 Runner up 2017, PAC-12 Bronze finisher 2014. 2x...

Team BY: TASHA NICHOLSON I am a survivor, a fierce fighter of mental illness. I have a brain disorder known as bipolar. I fight the unusual shif...

by Sally Bergesen Team 1. We all need a team. We usually have that growing up. Family, sports, school, music… we find a tribe. But once sch...

Training BY: DEVON YANKO For most of my running career, I feel like I've been harboring a dirty little secret: I take rest days. Not sometimes, ...

Team BY: MARIA MICHTA-COFFEY, OISELLE HAUTE VOLÉE This year has been the strangest year. For starters it was the season that wasn't supposed to ...

by Sally Bergesen Brand "There is no absolute standard of magnitude." - John Gardner On August 21st, there will be a total solar eclipse — t...

by Hannah Calvert Style Sports bras are tricky technical pieces. You want them to be tight, but not so tight you are sneakily pulling your c...

by Jess Barnard Social Heather McWhirter! You all may know her as a one of the women behind the lens of the Eclipse Collection. But, not onl...

Team FEEL LIKE A FRAUD? YOU ARE NOT ALONE BY: LAUREN KRAFT There’s a tipping point, in any sport, where a woman feels that they can stake some ...

by Hannah Calvert Style With the Eclipse Collection having just launched, there are a variety of new styles that need to be formally introdu...

by Megan Murray (aka. Meg) Style It’s 5:45 am and we’re standing amidst rabbit holes in a field on San Juan Island. The athletes in our phot...

by Hannah Calvert Social A core component of our brand identity is being by women, for women. We consistently find ourselves starting brains...

by Kara Goucher Team In 2007 I ran the 10,000 meters in the World Track and Field Championships in Osaka, Japan. It was my first World Champ...

Style We must remember... On the days where the world is dark, and the air is biting, and the skies growl with a carnivorous hunger – that it is...

by Hannah Calvert Social Sometimes the magic of a race doesn’t lie in the performance. Sometimes it’s the race itself that creates a magnet...

by Sally Bergesen Style A Meditation On Mile One There's always a mile one.  Mile one is the distance of resistance. The most difficult mil...

by Sally Bergesen Social Traditions. They not only remind us who we are, but where we've come from. In the sport world, male traditions and ...