Oiselle Blog

by Sally Bergesen Style You know my friend, Brenda.  I'm sure you do. You've met her at our Flagship Store, joined her for one of our Thursd...

by Rebecca Nelson Style Buckle up for a Straight Scoop round up! We’ve gathered up a big batch of Straight Scoop reviews of current styles f...

by Jess Barnard Team What happens when you skip town for a breath of thin air in the desert? What happens when you commit to this next seaso...

by Sally Bergesen Style Sweat droplets are like little containers for your body's heat. Blood --> sweat glands --> sweat droplets on ...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Team Every year that I go to Boston around marathon time, I appreciate it more. The Volée team events, spectating ...

Training BY: CARRIE MACK When you ask me about 2019, so far it goes like this: January - A new year! I ran on a track! In spikes! Things are hap...

by Steph Willett Racing It's hard to believe that the 2019 Tenacious 10 weekend is already a thing of the past, but we couldn't have asked f...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Racing I am so thrilled to be heading back to Boston! Last year was bizarre and wonderful. Sally, sorry I trashed y...

by Steph Willett Racing That's right everybody, we are just 10 days away from kicking off the very full (and very fun) Tenacious Ten weekend...

Team BY: CORY BENSON I returned from a conference in Orlando last night, to find the daffodil bulbs just beginning to push their way up through ...

by Allie Kieffer Training A couple of weeks ago I was diagnosed with 3 stress reactions, a sprained ligament, and tendinopathy in my right ...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) It’s that time! The Volée team is open, Boston Marathon and the Tenacious Ten are coming up, and these 5 Volée tea...

Team BY: THERESA HAILEY As an athlete or in your day job, have you ever had the feeling like you don’t deserve to be in the position you are in...

by Sally Bergesen Style Athlete women are at the core of everything we do. Which makes the Oiselle line of gear and apparel very simple: RU...

by Sally Bergesen Social We’ve seen em. The cats on Cat Lady Fleece. The dogs lovin’ on your Lux. Even the occasional hamster, rabbit, or b...

Winning was not on the menu. Sandbagging, well that's another thing. But believe me when I say that even within the fine art of my sandbagging, I n...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Training It's that time again! I'm just getting out of the boot, and want to scale back to weight bearing exercise...

Team BY: BETHANY DRAKE The human body is a work of art. It is the most complex machine and the most beautiful work of art on the planet. We pus...

by Sally Bergesen Style First thing's first: TRACK TRIO is back! Purchase any bra + any top + any bottom, and celebrate with 20% off! And w...

Team BY: KARA CLARK Aging. Aging has always been a part of life that brought me fear. I honestly thought that growing up meant growing old - det...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Team There has been so much discussion about the new Olympic qualification standards (times and rankings), and the ...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Training Every runner and every body is different, and my best advice as a doctor is for everyone to have a person...

by Sally Bergesen Style Who says a design Q & A has to be formal? In fact, maybe it's even better if we can text it out, complete with ...

BY: ALEXINA WILSON Running is something that I never saw an end game for. I have loved racing since I first started track in middle school and h...

by Sally Bergesen Though your thermostat might beg to differ, spring WILL come. The air will warm. And new shoots and leaves will fill the t...

by Hannah Calvert Team A few weeks ago, we were thrilled to have Carolyn Su, the creator of the account Diverse We Run, on the blog. We coul...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Racing This past weekend, a few of Oiselle’s Haute Volée Olympic Trials Qualifiers in the marathon ran Atlanta Trac...

BY: CATHERINE WATKINS With Spring just around the corner comes the excitement of Spring marathons. For many Canadian marathon athletes this mean...

by Sally Bergesen We love Washington, DC. And the many women who have become friends and teammates in this incredible city; the heartbeat of ...

BY: SAMMY GEORGE I have been vulnerable in the past about my mental health struggles and I know that I want to share in hopes of relating to oth...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) When I first met Sally, I was a running skirt snob…maybe a throwback to my hippie upbringing but I couldn’t underst...

Racing BY: ERIN GOOD I’ve had the same dream every night since completing The Franklins, a 200-mile individual footrace directed by Trail Racing...

BY: BECKI & ANNA How do you describe a near-lifelong dream come true – one that two people shared long before they knew each other – that w...

BY: KENDRA CHAMBERS In honor of Black History Month, I wanted to share some of my experiences of being a black female athlete in America. I hop...

by Kara Goucher On May 22nd, 2000 I wrote in my journal. I was a junior in college and I was running very fast. I had recently run 15:28 in...

BY: MARIA MICHTA-COFFEY Have you ever stepped on the line of a race and were terrified you wouldn’t have what it takes to achieve what you wante...

by Allie Kieffer Strong is empowering. It’s knowing you belong in the free weight section of the gym, holding your own amongst grunting men...

by Sally Bergesen No surprise, I realllllly wanted my girls to love sports. Not just because we’re a family of athletes, but also because s...

BY: RILEY COOKS, Heptathlete For me, some of the hardest weeks in my training have been the week directly following a big competition- aka “re...

by Sally Bergesen Style Hi friends, we got you something we think you're going to love. It's a new fabric. In two ready-to-run styles. It's ...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) At Oiselle, we feel like every day is Girls and Women in Sports Day! We live it, we breathe it, wear it, and we get...

Social BY: CAROLYN SU It’s a scary feeling, speaking up and asking for equity in representation. There’s a fear of being told, “you don’t matter...

by Sally Bergesen Style I believe in love at first sight. Especially when it comes to apparel design. And sometimes, from the very first mom...

by Lauren Fleshman Training In my early 20’s, when racing performance was the variable I solved every equation for, and elite racing was th...

by Sally Bergesen Social REPRESENTATION. Is everything. We can choose to accept that which we’re given. Or we can make our own images, in o...

BY: KRISTEN GARZONE Postpartum depression. Something I never even knew existed until about a month into maternity leave. I remember a post poppi...

Racing Classic post-marathon feels.  BY: SASHA GOLLISH Thank you sisterhood for welcoming me with open arms to the marathon club. What a journey...

by Dr Lesko (aka. Sarah) Training Hard to believe we're already approaching February of 2019! And that means the marathon Olympic Trials in ...

by Sally Bergesen Style Mac Rogas in Cloud Print I just got back from Hong Kong where we met with one of our longtime factory partners. Two ...

by Sally Bergesen Style RENEW. REWIRE. REVIVE. REPRESENT. Start lines are a beautiful thing. Not just in races, but on calendars, in life. ...