DMV Bird Camp 2017 - A Recap

I may have been silent on this blog, but I have been far from inactive! Just racing less... a lot less. The upside of not having races every weekend is that I could attend Volée's Bird Camp! What is Volée? Oiselle created a nationwide women's running team that I joined last year and it has been awesome. I had a teammate come and cheer me on at the Roxbury Marathon, even though we had never met before. I've met new friends in Pittsburgh through the team and I always see people in the singlets at races and can cheer them on.

What is Bird Camp? Volée set up a number of weekend retreats just for female runners throughout the US. Since Pittsburgh is close to DC, I went to the DMV camp (DC, Maryland, Virginia). It was absolutely life-giving. I loved spending a weekend surrounded by other women with similar goals. I got advice from former Olympian and current Crossfit coach Anna Willard Grenier.  She helped me realize that I *might* be doing too much right now by going to Crossfit five days a week and running six (who knew?). Getting to run every day with all these great women was my favorite thing I've done so far this year. I think I'm going to try to go twice next year.

If you are interested in joining Volée, registration is going to open up soon. Come join us!