The vision of our first-ever Women’s Running Retreat at Craftsbury is to create a community of women supporting and coaching women. We are dedicating a space to/for women to celebrate their running goals (whatever they may be) and to honor the challenges women face at any age (especially during the pandemic). Our focus is on running in relationship to life, rather than life in relationship to running.

Through this and future Women’s Running Retreats, we will continue to push the need for gender parity in the world of coaching by only having female coaches and speakers. We want to amplify women’s voices in the running world and support the work of women making positive impacts.

For our initial virtual retreat in June, we honored to welcome these exceptional women as keynote speakers: