376. Peloton Announces All-For-One Dates Plus Our Interview With Lindsey Spindle

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The Clip Out | Lindsey Spindle | Peloton Commencement Speech

 

  • Peloton announces All-For-One dates.
  • John Foley’s post-Peloton sell-off.
  • LifeHacker writes about Peloton’s new $95 activation fee.
  • Tips for accessing Peloton’s website when it doesn’t work.
  • Peloton Quick Hits.
  • Angelo/MetPro – When does cardio become TOO much cardio for perimenopausal women?
  • Becs Gentry was ABC News.
  • Selena Samuela discusses her miscarriage.
  • Susie Chan was on the Runna podcast.
  • Andy Speer was on the Intentional Wisdom podcast.
  • CJ Albertson will run the NYC Marathon.
  • TCO Top 5.
  • This Week at Peloton.
  • A 60-minute HIIT run on the schedule.
  • Strength For Soccer has dropped.
  • Brace yourself for Fall schedule changes.
  • Peloton’s Labor Day Sale.
  • Birthdays – Kristen McGee (8/31)

 

All this plus our interview with Lindsey Spindle!

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Peloton Announces All-For-One Dates Plus Our Interview With Lindsey Spindle

It is so nice to be back in our studio.

We’re recording from our lush but not lavish studio. Is that what you say?

That’s what I say on Reel Spoilers, “Lush but not lavish studios located in the basement of the O’Keeffe Institute for Advance Films.” If for the rest of this episode, I’m like, “Patreon.com/reelspoilers,” it is 100% your fault.

That tracks.

I had a great time at the Podcast Movement. We’ll talk about that in the bonus episode on Patreon.com/TheClipOut. We’ll do a deep dive on the Podcast Movement, and how we met Ira Glass. It’s so cool. I recorded a statement for This American Life that didn’t make the cut. We’ll talk about that.

You talked to Ira Glass about it and he was nice.

We’ll talk about all that. We did a whole episode in their studio and then they didn’t get us the files in time, so we had to re-record the whole episode. About halfway through that, I realized I had forgotten to hit record, and we had to do it again.

We recorded three times for one episode.

If you want to see the episode that never aired, it’s over at our Patreon. You’ll see all the raw footage of us talking to the editors.

It is all the behind-the-scenes.

There’s nothing edited out. My pants are on. When I say it’s unedited, I don’t want people to think that it was dirty.

Nobody was thinking that. We should talk about what’s on the show.

Let’s talk about what’s on the show.

We have Lindsey Spindle on as our guest. She did a commencement speech that was then shared by Christine D’Ercole. We got to talk about that. We also talked about how she had a very reluctant start with Peloton. It was a very fun conversation. We also have a bunch of news coming out of Peloton, the All For One date, and John Foley’s very sad announcement.

Life Hacker is talking about that new $95 activation fee, which I thought was a very interesting take on it, given all the heat that they are taking. There are tips for accessing Peloton’s website when it doesn’t work. We have a bunch of quick hits that we’re going to get to. Angelo stopped by and we talked about when is cardio too much specifically for perimenopausal women.

I don’t know about perimenopausal women, but for me, as soon as I start to sweat, that’s too much cardio.

We also have a bunch of instructor updates and some are sad, so we’ll have to give a trigger warning on that. We have passed a guest update for CJ Albertson. We have an artist series update, content update, and sale update.

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We talked about all that stuff. Sometimes we get a little gossipy or over there.

Just a little bit.

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I might throw a Kendall update.

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We shall.

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The All For One date has been announced.

It keeps getting later and later. Do you remember when this was July 4th weekend once?

I don’t pay attention.

Way back when All For One happened for the very first time, John Foley announced it at Homecoming/HRI. I can’t remember which year it was, but it was going to be July 4th. It was a big surprise. It was in July for a couple of years, and then it got moved to August. This 2024, it is at the end of September.

It’s like how the seasons keep shifting. The summer starts a little later and the winter is longer.

We don’t know a lot about this yet. They have announced the artist but they are saying that the dates are going to be September 26th through the 30th. They promised a week where the best in fitness meets your favorite artist. It’s not a full week. It’s four days, but we’ll take it. We are pretty excited to see who shows up artist-wise. The big question I have been getting is you weren’t able to book classes. The studio was closed. It’s still closed, but they announced on Instagram that you’re going to be able to get into Artist Series classes. We’ll talk more about that later. I can’t help but wonder if the two were connected.

I think that’s a fair question.

It’s more of a question than a topic to discuss, but there we have it.

Yahoo had an interview with John Foley with some sad news. It’s not sad like there was a death or anything.

It’s just sad in general. It wasn’t on Yahoo originally. Yahoo and a bunch of other places picked it up. I don’t remember who we talked to first.

Probably someplace with a paywall, which is why we’re getting it off from Yahoo. That’s what happens when you use a paywall. We don’t give you credit.

John Foley is saying that even though once he was a billionaire on paper, he had to sell almost everything. That’s sad.

I’m sure some people are screaming at their podcast delivery device. I will also say that being out of money for someone like John Foley is probably not the same as being out of money for people like you and me.

There’s a difference between losing your investment versus being truly destitute.

It’s like a legit paycheck-to-paycheck, and my guess is that John Foley is not paycheck to paycheck.

I would agree. He was on top of the world. It’s still a sad story.

He didn’t do anything nefarious. Normally, when stuff like that happens, it is because somebody is like Kevin Spacey or something like that.

It’s like the billionaires take and take, and they are evil. They never get their justice served. Even when they lose their money, there are still billions somewhere hidden away. That’s not the case that I know of for John Foley. He’s such a normal regular guy. A lot of people may not realize this, but the true full story of Peloton is that he had put his entire life savings into Peloton. He told that to us face-to-face.

He also said that there were some very lean years before Peloton started getting popular. There were days he wondered if they were going to have to close early on. He was so excited when they were past that point. To see it come full circle back to the point where he doesn’t feel proud of that accomplishment anymore or at least the financial aspect of that accomplishment anymore is sad. He’s a good person.

We’ve had multiple personal interactions was John Foley and he has always been super nice.

Genuinely, one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. I know there are a lot of people who give John Foley a lot of sh*t, but I will defend him to the end of time because he has never been anything but nice to me. There are a lot of people that I have interacted with in the Peloton world who start off nice and turn into d*cks. He is not one of them.

Not to us anyway.

His wife Jill is also an amazing sweet person.

That’s because she was born on August 20th.

You’re probably right. There’s something about that date.

It was announced that Peloton is adding a $95 activation fee if you purchase your bike on the secondary market, i.e. not from them. Collectively the internet lost their sh*t. Life Hacker has chimed in, and I will have to say it’s so refreshing to see an article about something like this that isn’t just gloom and doom. They’re defending the $95 activation fee. I will let you take it from here. What did Life Hacker have to say about the $95 activation fee? That’s a secret code for me for saying I didn’t read it.

Here’s the basic gist. We don’t know everything that this $95 fee is going to get you because Peloton hasn’t spelled that out exactly. What we do know is it’s a one-time fee. If you let your subscription lapse and then reactivate it, there doesn’t seem to be any indication that it’s going to trigger it happening again, for example. You pay it and then you’re on the same footing as any other customer. It only applies to those sales. It does not appear to apply to any refurbished bikes if you buy those through Peloton.

That’s because that’s not the secondary market.

You also get an onboarding experience. You get a virtual custom fitting which other services pay or charge $125 and up for. That’s important to note. There are also going to be discounts on accessories, including shoes and spare parts. There is a lot that you’re getting out of it. I understand that some people feel that this dilutes what they’re getting out of their bike, but guess what? They didn’t give or sell you that bike so that you could resell it and make money off of it. That wasn’t what they were trying to do.

There are a lot of people who look at it like everything should be about them all the time, yet they will simultaneously tell you that Peloton needs to make more money and be more careful with their money. This is a way to do that because they are they’re giving you these services, but now they are charging you, so they’re covering the overhead by somebody spending that time on the phone with you. I don’t think that’s a crazy thing.

Here’s my question. You get a virtual fitting if you buy a secondary market bike and pay the activation fee. If you buy a new bike, why don’t they give you a fitting for that?

In theory, your white glove delivery service should be doing that, but some would say that if you buy it on Amazon, you’re not necessarily getting your white glove delivery service. I don’t have an answer to that. I have seen a lot of delivery people not do the white glove delivery service. I have never had that example. I have had XRO, XPO, and all of them. We have a Tread+, three bikes, a Tonal, and a rower.

I’m about to have a third Tonal delivery.

That’s right, and not one time have I ever had a person leave without showing me everything I needed to do. Would I let them? No. The first time they were here, I probably would have because I didn’t know any better. After that, I did know better and I have never had a bad experience. They never tried to leave.

I find it fascinating that these third-party delivery systems can send out people who know how to do that for all these different types of equipment. That’s a lot of stuff to know how to do.

I’m making a note, Tom, that we should talk about this over on the bonus episode. When this last Tonal got delivered, I had a whole conversation with the delivery guy. He had a lot to say about Tonal’s customer service compared to Peloton and others, and it was all good. I will say that.

We will drill down on that in the bonus episode if we remember. She’s making a note. Ultimately, this is designed to encourage people to buy a refurbished bike instead of buying something on the secondary. This does protect the consumer as well. We’ve seen the horror stories of people who have bought bikes that were technically rental bikes.

This also cuts that out. If you do buy a bike and supposedly later on, it’s going to be for things like the tread. If you buy a used one, you can also get that report that shows you what you got with your bike. You’re going to be getting that with a $95 fee. That’s the way I’m reading it, the initial thing that was in their press release. Even if you’re buying it from somebody and you’d never even heard about this activation fee, you can still get that report.

Eventually, that will be also added on to the tread and hopefully, the Tread+. That is a valuable piece of information because there are people who do things to their bikes. Some people change out things, swap out pedals, swap out all kinds of stuff. They add third-party junk to their stuff. Some of them are great third-party stuff, but some of them are junk. There are a lot of things.

They jack the bike so the metrics are high.

Some of that, you’re going to have covered in that report. Some of it, you’re not. If it has been turned in to customer service a lot, you’re going to have that information. That’s good to know.

We talked in the previous episode about people having difficulties logging in to the member section of the Peloton website. We have created an article with some tips on what to do if you are faced with that scenario.

It turns out it’s not a website outage. What it is is they added cookies.

Is this part of the Peloton nutrition that they’re doing?

You would think, but no. It’s not that cookie. It’s the kind that stores information from your shopping cart or the last page that you visited. Sometimes if a crucial cookie becomes corrupted or is missing, then it’s going to lead to errors. That is what we are experiencing on Members.OnePeloton.com.

#AllCookiesAreCrucial. I’m just kidding. Oatmeal raisin cookies can go f*ck themselves.

There’s a super simple fix for this that we have listed on our website. You can find Troubleshooting Peloton Member Site Login Issues. That is the article, We have directions listed for Google Chrome, Safari, and Microsoft Edge. It’s very simple. You want to get rid of the cookie associated with that page and you don’t have to get rid of everything else in your history. You’re not going to have to redo all your logins. That drives me nuts. We have all that for you. We have it all broken down. Very easy to fix.

That link will be in the newsletter so you can go and sign up for the newsletter, and it’ll get sent right to you.

Thank you Helper Bee Nikki for doing that.

Here are some Peloton quick hits about what’s going on around the world of Peloton. We will start with Bradley and his wife Sophia climbing Ben Nevis. Who is he?

I don’t know who he is. I know that it is a mountain in Scotland. This is a 4,413-foot elevation mountain. It typically takes seven hours to hike this. They reached the summit in five and a half. Apparently, they were miserable and hurrying.

They were trying to make a point that they wanted it over with.

The view from the top is only clear on ten days a year. They went through fog, hail, rain, and freezing temperatures but they smiled the entire time.

They get a picture where you can’t see anything. Great.

I would never be able to convince you of that. Do you know the time when we went for a little walk on Thanksgiving Day and it ended up being a 5-mile walk? I still hear about that, and it wasn’t in the fog, the rain, or the hail.

It was 5 miles when you said a little walk. We did a trail and the trail kept going. I feel like we’re still out there. It was quite a journey. It was very traumatic. Ben Nevis is a mountain. Not a person. Pineapples are not part of the Peloton nutrition. For a little recap about the new feature Just Guidance.

It has rolled out for the bike, the tread, and the row. You can use it on any of these platforms and you can use it in any non-instructor facing capacity. Just Workout if you’re using Amazon Kindle, Netflix, etc. You’re going to get a little audio cue from your favorite instructors that chimes in to tell you when to change things up. It is separated and filtered by difficulty and workout types. You can choose what fits best for you.

Buy a bike and you get $100 to spend on Dick’s.

Dick’s Sporting Goods specifically.

That makes more sense.

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It’s a new promotion. Whenever you buy a bike or a Bike+, you get a $100 gift card to Dick’s Sporting Goods.

That seems like a good deal if you like the Sporting.

I would agree. There’s a lot of good stuff at that store. I love that store.

Do you?

I do, Tom. One time, I worked for a company and I had to go on this long road trip with two of my co-workers who happened to be men. We were driving along in a car and we were driving by and it was this huge Dick’s Sporting Goods store to which I said, “That’s a huge Dick’s. I love that place.”

You never heard the end of that.

Never, the whole time I worked there.

What you’re saying is the company did not have an HR department. That’s what I’m hearing.

They did not. It’s very male-dominated.

Ben and Leanne Alldis speak at the Happy Place Festival, which I found confusing because Happy Place is code for Disney World.

That’s the happiest place on Earth.

They call it the happy place, that fandom. I was like, “Are they doing something with Disney?”

No. It’s a two-day festival that highlights all things well-being, so your health, fitness, and the arts. Ben and Leanne are going to be speaking there on August 31st at 12:15 local time PST. They’re going to discuss Being Fit for Life in their talk. They will also be attending the festival outside of their time on the stage, and you can still get tickets there. If you’re looking to run into Ben and Leanne, this is the place to do it.

Here’s your chance. Coming up after this, we’re going to talk to Angelo. He has tips or advice for when cardio becomes too much cardio for perimenopausal women.

It could also be postmenopausal.

That’s coming up next.

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Joining us once again is Angelo from MetPro to answer all of your fitness and nutrition questions.

It’s good to see you.

It’s good to see you too. For our next question, I have to give a little bit of background. You know, Angelo, how much of a fan I am of Stacy Sims. I’ve told you that before and I know you are a big fan of the fact that she uses real science behind what she says. Erin Leslie Rodin says that she would like to know what is too much cardio. She’s a 41-year-old female.

When I hear that, I know she’s talking about Stacy Sims because she says, “I’ve heard doing too much cardio is bad now that I’m older, and I should do more strength and walk. I love doing 45 to 60-minute rides on the Peloton. I love the HIIT rides and rows. I love long high-intensity cardio so much. It confuses me and makes me sad that I hear this because as I’m getting older, I should give it up.” She shouldn’t give it up, but I’ll let you answer the question.

When Stacy talks about the benefits of strength training, what it means is you don’t want to neglect your strength training. The answer is in the question. You say you love doing your Peloton. Don’t stop what you love because you’ll continue doing the things that you love. You may not love resistance training. I don’t love broccoli, but I do it anyway. You do it because it’s good for you.

Find a way that you can at least incorporate some level of it. I want to put your mind at ease, Erin. You’re not doing a degree that’s sending up any red flags. There are lots of balanced athletes out there who do a good balance of their aerobic activity and strength training. Sometimes when you’re training for a marathon or you’re training for an event, there’s a lot more duration to how long they’re doing their cardio than what you described.

I think you’re safe there. Where I think it hurts you is if you’re doing it to the exclusion of the strength training that is, especially as a woman in your 40s, you want to jump onto that bandwagon now. I’m going to read between the lines and assume you haven’t done a lot of it before. You were already behind the eight ball and catching up.

You want to get your body used to it now because that is going to be your fountain of youth. You do not need to spend hours and hours. In one of our last questions, we talked about eliciting hypertrophy, which simply means bringing your muscles to a state of failure or close to it. You can do that quickly, especially if you tack it on to your aerobic workouts where you’re already warm, then you don’t have to do as long of a warmup.

If you have some direction and you know what to do for some strength training, systematically work each of your muscle groups and you don’t have to put that much time into it, you’re going to see a lot of benefits. Even doing something a couple three times a week, or 15 to 20 minutes will have a major impact over time.

It impacts me. If it impacts me, it’ll impact anybody.

That’s my new tagline. If it works for Tom, it’ll work for anyone.

I like it. For our over-50s out there, I don’t know that reference.

They will.

It’s a blessing if you enjoy doing aerobic activity because it is hard to condition yourself to do aerobics in the long term if it’s not something that you don’t naturally enjoy. It’s a lot easier to condition yourself for some weight training.

It’s true, and cardio has benefits. It’s not like you’re not getting anything out of it. You get a lot out of cardio. I don’t think that you should stop doing the cardio. You probably need to rearrange the priorities.

It’s like Obamacare. If you like your cardio, you can keep it. You just got to throw in a little bit extra. Thank you so much for all that. If people would like this information tailor-made for their fitness journey, where can they find you or Crystal?

They can visit us at MetPro.co/tco.

Thank you.

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Becs Gentry was on ABC News.

She was talking about the Great World Race that is coming up very soon. It’s going to be here before we know it. That’s where she’s going to do seven marathons in seven continents in seven days.

It is crazy. Just travel would wipe me out.

She talked about it on the Set The Pace Podcast for the New York Road Runners, which is on Peloton’s platform, the episode where she talks about this. She talked about some of the things that they do and some of the tips that they have. One of the things that they do is, first of all, when they travel by charter plane, they are laying flat in between countries so that they can truly sleep on the plane. Everybody has a completely flat place to lie down. A lot of people bring their leg compression recovery things like a Normatec on the plane. They do that while they sleep so that their legs can recover while they sleep. It’s some hardcore recovery.

It would need to be.

I’m excited for Becs. I’m excited that she got to be on ABC News. This whole thing is cool.

It’s a neat thing. We’ve had other people on the show who have talked about it in the past, but it’s a cool way to do it if you have the skills and the cash. I have neither.

It’s super expensive. This is not for a person who’s on a running budget. If you’re like, “That pair of shoes is expensive,” you are not those people who are like, “I should go and do this.” This is like a $50,000 venture. Not for the faint of cash.

Not for the faint of wallet. Before we dig into this one, we should warn people that it talks about pregnancy troubles. If that’s a problem for you, maybe just hit fast-forward for a minute and a half-ish. We don’t know for sure how long we’ll talk. Selena Samuela had an Instagram post discussing her miscarriage.

I’m so sad for her. I have so much respect for her being so open and vulnerable about this because that is not an easy thing to talk about. She was talking on Instagram about how this pregnancy was easier than her first pregnancy. When she had the miscarriage, she felt like it was some kind of punishment. I think a lot of women do this.

How do you not? People do that about all sorts of things.

It’s very much a human nature.

How many times people are like, “I think I’m pitching a no-hitter. I think I’m going to bowl 300.” This is way more serious, but it’s an example of how people think like this every day.

I like how she finished this up with hope. She said that sometimes sad things happen, like losing a baby, and there is no why attached to it, or at least none that you can grasp. It’s part of a plan set by God. God has the why and it’s not my job to know it. It’s my job to live it and see it through to a new destination and a path that is just for me.

She also talks about how, in early pregnancy, losing a baby can be very isolating. That is so true because she talks about this in her post. Many people are like, “Don’t tell anyone until after the first trimester is over because it’s usually safer by then to be able to say.” If you’re not telling anybody you’re pregnant, if you lose the baby, it’s so much harder to share.

There are also people who because they didn’t know, it feels like it doesn’t count.

Also, there are people who have never had a child, mostly men. I say that with a little bit of humor. Sometimes they also think it doesn’t matter because it was only a few weeks into it, like a few weeks shouldn’t “matter.” It is such a personal experience. It’s a thing living inside you. However you feel is perfectly acceptable to feel.

I also understand why people are like, “Don’t share before your first trimester because it might be harder for you.” Everybody is different. Some people may never want to tell another living soul about that thing that happened to them. Some people may want to share with everyone, and there’s no wrong way. Our hearts go out to Selena and her family. I hope that she’s not feeling too isolated. I know that she has a great support system.

Moving on to happier topics. Susie Chan was on The Runna Podcast.

She was talking about some of her adventures in running, and also her book. I should also say that Runna is also the official app that the New York City Marathon uses for its training. New York Road Runners, that’s what they use for their training app this year. I suspect that is how these two might have made this happen, through the New York City Marathon. Either way, it’s exciting. I love to have a chance to listen to Susie tell her stories.

Andy Speer was on the Intentional Wisdom podcast.

Most notable was he talks about Strength+. He talks about how it’s going to incorporate strength machines typically found in gyms, and those classes will also be using benches and barbells, all of which we had thought, but it’s out there officially now via Andy.

Do you think that was on purpose or do you think he got out in front of it?

I don’t think that he did. He probably recorded this slightly ahead of time. The week that this was aired is the same week that they had the announcement of Strength+. At least they were doing the beta test about it. I feel like this is trying to get the ball rolling and getting the news out there. I think it was very purposeful.

Coming up after this, we’re going to talk about artist series. We don’t have an artist series, but we’re going to tell you how you can take part in an artist series, so sit tight.

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Peloton has put out a call for people who would like to be in the studio for an upcoming artist series.

They say it’s for their September artist series, which I find fascinating since that also coincides with the same month that they are having All For One.

How do you do that if you don’t know who the artists are? My favorite band is The Monkees, and you put me in an artist series class for Lil Jon.

You give up your seat.

You would think they would give you a little bit more direction.

They will on the day they drop the classes, which is tomorrow. They’re telling people, “If you want to try to get in, tomorrow is your moment.” That’s tomorrow at noon Eastern. By the time people tune in to this episode, it will have already been announced, so we won’t know until after tomorrow because today is Wednesday. They always post their classes that are going to be on the website for the upcoming six weeks. They always post that on Thursdays at noon Eastern.

Since the studio was closed, they didn’t post any new classes. They’re a little behind. It’s interesting and I don’t know if that means it’ll be for All For One, or if it means that it is simply an artist series not related to All For One, or if there will be multiple artists series. With it being only four weeks out, it’s unclear if people are even going to be allowed into the studio for All For One.

2023 was the first year that people were allowed in the studio because of COVID and how it all worked, This 2024, it’s so late. I’m not saying it won’t be. It’s just so late. Giving people months to come into the studio is not much time. Six weeks isn’t much time for those of us who don’t live in the Tri-State area. I don’t know what it’s going to be. By the time this airs, everybody will know.

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Past guest CJ Albertson, who has rocketed to fame since our interview, will be participating in the New York City Marathon.

They have an entire pro line and he will be heading up the American contingent because he lives in America.

Do marathons have a pole position like car races do?

I don’t know what that means.

Pole position is like you’re front inside. That’s the best spot to be in. You’re already in the lead and you’re already on the inside.

That could be. I truly don’t know. I’ve never actually watched a marathon from the very beginning, like when the pros had out. I’ve watched parts of marathons. I’ve never watched the start of a marathon.

People are wondering how I knew something about sports, through Speed Racer.

CJ Albertson is also the current world record holder in the 50K and he was fifth at the Olympic Marathon trials. That’s pretty exciting.

Congrats to him.

Maybe we’ll run into him when we are in New York.

Not on the track because he’ll be way ahead of me because I’m not running.

He will be done before I even start. That’s what will happen.

I can hang out at the finish line waiting for you. We’ll be there cheering you on at the end with CJ. He will have already finished, gone home, taken a nap, went to take care of his kids, went to TGIF Fridays, got himself a potsticker, and then come back.

That would make my day.

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It is time for the TCO Top Five. We asked you which classes resonated the most with you, and then we’ll say them back to you, and then other people do them.

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You make it sound so great.

Number one, your favorite ride.

This ride is going back in time a little bit to March 1st. It was a Miami Bass ride taught by Camila Ramon. Pat Darling recommended it and said, “I don’t revisit classes often, but I was looking for something to get me out of my physical and mental rut. I needed something high energy and fun. If you like high-energy booty-shaking music, then I highly recommend this class. Camilla was on fire and truly enjoying herself which translated to pure fun. Warning, rated R.”

That’s a lot of booty shaking. That’s how it got the R rating. Number two, your favorite walk run.

This was taught by Susie Chan on 8/13 and it was a 45-minute walk plus run. Becky Gomes said, “This is a perfect class if you’re working your way back into the longer run. Susie’s coaching and personality are engaging as always and the playlist was perfect and had everything from Wham to Taylor Swift. Note that Peloton has recently acquired the rights to Wham’s music, and you will find their songs in quite a few classes.” I second that. I came across one too.

I wonder if that means we will see an artist series soon.

I would love that.

Number three, your favorite outdoor run.

I would put this in unstackable but apparently, some people disagree. This was taught by Susie and Matt. It dropped on Wednesday, June 5th, 2024. Liz Shohan said, “What a class. Matt and Susie taught a two-hour endurance run together. They broke it into sets of 10 with 8 on and 3 off, and their conversation was great. I love the mix of genres for music, and hearing about their experiences in racing.”

Here’s the thing. I had no idea that this class existed because I had never taken the road to the half marathon, and it’s baked within it. It’s in the half the road to half marathon collection. I say that because that’s the only place that you can find it. You can’t find it under Runs. You can’t find it under Outdoor. You have to go in through Collections. It’s week eight, ladies and gentlemen. You are welcome. I can’t wait to take this because I need a two-hour class.

It’s knowledge like this which is why The Clip Out is so important. You wouldn’t be able to find that.

Probably people are not taking that class because no one can find it.

They don’t even know how to look for it.

There were a lot of long classes in there. I bookmarked a ton of them because I do need long classes.

Number four, your favorite yoga class.

This class was taught by Mariana Fernandez on July 18th, 2024. It was the Jack Antonoff yoga flow. We have a whole article about that if you’re not sure who Jack is but just focus on Taylor Swift and the bleachers. The music for this yoga flow is fantastic. I don’t know how to pronounce the person’s name who recommended this class because it looks like it might be their leaderboard name. I’m going to completely butcher it. They said, “The class was amazing, sweaty but not too intense with a great playlist,” which is nice because if you’re looking for a low-impact or an easy yoga flow, sometimes they can be hard to find. There you go.

Finally, you’re unstackable is a run.

It is also taught by Mariana Fernandez back on May 2nd of 2024. This class was suggested by Karen Brady. She says, “Unstackable doesn’t mean undoable. Every Wednesday, I’m giving a substantial workout for my marathon or half marathon training. It’s usually a 90-minute morning, which means an early start. Without fail, I turn on this 90-minute 2010 run, and it always gets me through the tough paces and the workout. The stories and the music are like I’m running with a friend who is encouraging me, even when the run feels impossible, that I can get to the finish. I need more of these, Mariana.” I agree. I have taken this class. It is amazing. The story she tells in this is fantastic. Good stuff. Absolutely wonderful.

Now, let’s turn our eyes to This Week at Peloton. We’ll start with new Pace Targets.

I love this because now Peloton has added a new filter on the tread and the Tread+. Now you can filter by Pace Target classes, making them even easier to get to. I’m super excited about that, and you now have classes that dropped from Joslyn, Marcel Dinkins, Becs, Robin, and Mariana. Yay because Mariana now has a permanent spot on the tread schedule.

Pace Target always confuses me because Pace is the parent company of Kmart, but Target is their competitor. How can you have a Pace Target?

Because it has nothing to do with retail.

Up next, Jazz up your Monday.

A music Monday, but it has a soothing twist because Chelsea Jackson Roberts has a 30-minute Jazz slow-flow class on Monday, August 26th. Smooth jazz is going to be the perfect way for you to unwind and start your week.

We have new scenic classes.

You can run ride or row through Greece. Those all drop on August 28th, so they will be out there waiting for you when you hear this.

Finally, we have seated adaptive with Logan.

They are expanding adaptive content because we’ve already had some of those classes. You can find a new 20-minute seated adaptive HIIT cardio class in the on-demand library. Maybe you have a specific need. Maybe you’re looking for something new. You can still get a great class out of it.

An eagle-eyed person out there spotted that there was a 60-minute HIIT run on the schedule.

We haven’t had one of these in a while if ever. I don’t recall that we’ve ever had one, but I could be wrong because it’s been a long time since Becs joined the ranks.

They’re rare enough that when they pop up, it gets people’s attention.

I’m very excited.

We got another long run there.

That’s different. That’s got to be for one of my days where I’m doing a midweek. That’s not part of my long-run rotation. If I do that in the long-run rotation, I’ll get all amped up and then I won’t be able to finish the rest of my miles because I’ll go to hard and HIIT sections.

We have a new class or program series, Strength for Soccer.

It’s supposed to be a program but they put it in a weird place because they put it in strength. It’s floating out there. It’s not located anywhere. Hopefully, they’re working on fixing that, but as of today, you could find it in strength, but you couldn’t find it under the programs. It was weird. Maybe they’re trying to put in the collections. It’s very bizarre how they did this and how they went about it. Anyway, there are two different versions of it. You can get one. There’s the German version and then there is the English version. There’s also a stretch class that you can only, for now, find under stretching. That belongs in this too. Hopefully, they’re going to fix that.

I am Interested to see if they get any pushback from people over in the UK because they call it soccer and they call it football.

That’s a great question.

Especially in Germany, they wouldn’t call it soccer either. They would also call it football. My guess is it’s the same in Australia. It’s interesting that they gave it a very American name.

That’s an American company on the other hand.

That is also true.

I think it’s a fair point. I think it’s a very fair point.

We should probably say real quick that fall is upon us. For those of you old enough to remember Network TV, you know that fall means schedule changes. Everything is pop culture.

A lot of our audiences have been around for a long time. They know that the fall also means schedule changes with Peloton, but there are a lot of new people in the Peloton world and they do not know, and the complaining has already begun. Expect it. You’re going to see your favorite instructors in time slots they don’t usually teach in. You’re going to see a lot of changes. It happens every year

Luckily your bike or tread is also essentially a DVR, so it will probably be there on demand.

They’re getting a lot of heat for not having enough bike classes. I think part of it is because they were closed for three weeks, so it’s like a pent-up frustration. There’s still new content, but there’s no live content, so people are losing their minds.

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If you’re looking to spend some money this Labor Day weekend, they are having a Labor Day sale over at the Peloton’s.

One of the things that they’re doing with the sale is 50% off on everything in the apparel store, but I did look and it’s not everything, just some exclusions. There are 50% off on a lot of stuff. There are some good sales out there, and they’re starting now. They’re going to end on 9/2. Don’t wait because they will keep refreshing and adding things. What they will not do is refresh once it’s gone. If there’s stuff that you’ve been looking at and it’s a good price, you probably should go ahead and buy it. I’m just saying. I’ve run into this before.

Also, they have a bunch of deals. They added to their website for the first time ever a deals tab. They’ve never had that. It got added today, and it’s on every single page now. At the very top where they have all their little banners, now a new one is deals. If you go there, you can see what their current deals are for the Tread+, the tread, etc., and they have a sale going for all of them for Labor Day. Right now, it’s only $350 off the Tread+. Somebody was asking me that earlier today.

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August is coming to an end, which means the birthday rush is slowing down. We only have one. August 31st is the birthday of Kristin McGee.

I miss her being our yoga instructor, but happy birthday to Kristin.

Coming up after this, we’re going to talk to our guest of the week, Lindsey Spindle. As you might remember, she had a commencement speech that mentioned Peloton heavily and was shared by Christine D’Ercole and she’s going to talk about all that came to be, so stick around.

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Joining us is Lindsey Spindle. Lindsey, how is it going?

Great to be with you.

I’m excited to have you here. There are a lot of people who may not know why I’m so excited because they don’t recognize your name. You did this amazing commencement speech for an engineering school that ended up reposted, portions of it, by Christine D’Ercole because you talked about her specifically. That is how I heard your name because you were involved in Peloton. I was like, “We have to talk to her. We have to hear all about this.” Usually, I start with how you get into Peloton. This time, I want to hear how you get to the speech and then back into the Peloton.

Lindsey’s Peloton Journey

They’re interconnected. I got my Peloton, like many people, right at the beginning of the pandemic. At the time, a good family friend of ours was the chief marketing officer at Peloton and she said, “Trust me, you want one of these. It is the most remarkable thing you’ll ever get.” I talked about this in my speech. I was reluctant to get one because I can do a lot of things in my life but I can barely ride a bike.

Also, she’s the marketing director, so you’re like, “What is she going to say?”

I went to Soul Cycle once and thought it was creepy. I was like, “I don’t know.” She said, “Trust me. Do it.” We were holding up and our kids were coming home. Schools were closing and were like, “What do we have to lose?” We get the bike. I always tell people that I was one of the most reluctant Peloton riders ever to walk the planet and yet, here I am four years later.

I’ll be honest with you, when I was approached about being a commencement speaker, it’s such an honor to think that a university would presume that I would be able to offer inspiration and advice to people so accomplished graduating into these complex fields. It went from being an honor to a little bit of a horror on two fronts.

One, writing a commencement speech is hard because you don’t want it to be boring. You don’t want it to be lectur-y like, “Your Jewish mother is telling you to do this.” They have had enough of that. You’d like it to be funny enough but humor is in the eye of the beholder. In general, a ten-minute speech to a graduating class is a writing challenge in and of itself. Secondarily, this spring, a lot of college campuses were embroiled in protest including the one that I was invited to be at. Protest on an issue that’s near and dear to my heart.

I kept cycling through drafts. I had eight drafts going at any given time, then one more morning, in my menopausal state at 4:04 in the morning, it came to me. I saw this throughline about my four-year journey on Peloton and therefore, your journey at school. I kept hearing the instructors in my head and I got out of bed and an hour and a half wrote about 95% of the speech. That was the origin story of how I stitched together things that I thought would be relatable and funny. Some of the advice that I had channeled to me through these ability amazing Peloton instructors that in truth are universal pieces of good advice for anyone.

It’s interesting that it was 4:04 in the morning because that’s the error code you get when a page won’t load.

It turns out that it may be error codes for me but it was a good inspiration.

A little pivot side note. On the Rolling Stones website, if you get a 404 code, they have an embed of a live performance of You Can’t Always Get What You Want. That’s a true story.

That’s the only time I’ve ever heard a menopausal waking up in the middle of the night story turn good.

I have been accused of being a pathologically positive person. I don’t call them hot flashes. I call them power surges. When you have a power surge, you can use them to do lots of different things. In this case, it was the power surge I needed to get rid of the other eight drafts and get a good, at least, what I thought was a decent speech together to deliver to the University of California, Irvine School of Engineering.

I would say power surge the next time you have one but I’m scared of what would come next.

You should be. If you say that to me at 3:00 AM when I can’t sleep.

“It’s a power surge, Honey. I’m going to roll over and go back to sleep.”

Tom, you go with, “I’m so sorry, honey.”

He sleeps through it. He doesn’t even know. They all do.

How would you know?

Every woman I’ve ever talked about the subject has a man sleeping or a partner sleeping soundly next to her. Every woman. I have never had that go another way.

I go through nightly wrestling with Statin sessions while my husband sleeps very calmly. Good for him.

We’re happy about that.

I can tell.

We all live, so maybe there’s something to this.

She’s got a point.

It puts more stress on us than you realize.

Fair enough.

I have to say that I’ve watched the speech a couple of times and it is not just an okay speech. It’s a great speech, especially if you like Peloton. You have this great way of telling a story and making it relevant to anybody who’s listening. Also, incredibly inspiring. I was ready to go set the world on fire when I got done listening to it. I was like, “This is amazing.”

Thank you. I know you have a very dedicated Peloton community. I’m sure people who ride far more frequently than I do have been with Peloton for a long time. It’s amazing. I feel like it is still an under-appreciated company and the instructors, the quality of the instruction, inspiration, music, and community formed. I’ve been moved as a person for the last four years. Not only for what Peloton did for me in a very dark time of all of a sudden being terrified and needing a place to channel it, but I made real friends through Peloton.

I’m in this group called The SoCal Cycle Paths in California. We do these Power Zone challenges together, but these are turned into real-life friendships. I’m hosting a pool party in my house. We’re in Ducks games together. I feel like if you’re going to try to offer inspiration to people, go to the sources of inspiration for yourself because oftentimes if it’s been moving to you, it will be so for others.

There are some things about Peloton you don’t have to even have been on a bike before to understand some of what the instructors encourage. The three who I point to, Christine, Dennis, and Matt, are probably my three favorites for very different reasons as I talked about in the speech. I owe them a lot. I’m in some of the best shape of my life. I feel strong and healthy at 51. I’ve made new friends. It’s great. In the end, I was very grateful to Peloton for everything it’s done for me and felt like it was an opportunity to pay it forward.

Commencement Speech

I am the talent buyer for a building in the market a midsize arena. We do a lot of graduations, like 30 every year. We’ll do up to four in a day. She’s like, “Watch this commencement.” I’m like, “Are you kidding me?” It was not like the others.

I have not sat there as many as you, Tom, but I’ve sat through my share of graduation speeches and they are usually boring and yours was not.

They can be pretty boring. There are some categories. First of all, if you want a couple of amazing ones from 2024, Rodger Federer gave a great one at Dartmouth. At my alma mater, the University of Michigan, Brad Meltzer was a friend of mine. When I went there, he was an awesome author. His is lights out. It’s probably the best one I’ve ever heard. I’m in the B-tier relative to those guys. I remember my University of Michigan commencement, vaguely in between champagne.

When I got invited to this one, I was like, “I guess you go to a commencement sober. This is going to be amazing.” Mine was terrible. It was so dull. I don’t remember anything from it. I wanted something memorable. Interesting facts about the University of California, Irvine, in the engineering school. Forty percent of these students are first-generation college students. This isn’t just for these students. It’s for their families. I wanted this to be a memorable experience for everyone in the building because that’s a lot of sacrifice for a lot of families. It’s a history-making moment. I wanted to do whatever I could to make it special for people.

You did amazing.

Thank you for sharing it with people. Christine did an edited version which was also good. She could have been my editor. She had it down to 90 seconds. It was awesome. It would have saved me a lot of sweat. The feedback when she posted on Instagram was overwhelming. I was floored and friends of mine from different parts of the world were texting me or sending me like, “Is that you on Christine’s Instagram?” That’s me with my nerdy reading glasses. That was the first thing my dad noticed. He goes, “Nice glasses.”

Thanks, Dad. That’s fabulous.

I feel like I have to say because you mentioned Brad Metzler. He wrote one of my favorite comic books of all time.

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His children’s books are amazing.

That’s how I got introduced to him then I saw he wrote actual books. I was like, “I should read one of these.”

You might like my speech, but go watch his and find out if he rides Peloton because if he does, you want him on. His is lights out good. He’s a professional writer, so he’s got that on me, but it’s fun to see how different people approach this idea of connecting with a live audience. It makes you think a lot about the storytelling work that the Peloton instructors do on the spot while they’re pedaling and sweating. They’re there telling you these stories.

They have to do it over and over again.

They have to keep coming up with new material.

In a way, it’s like being a stand-up comic. I always talk about how if you’re a band and you write three good songs, you can play them for the rest of your career and people will be happy, but if you write three good jokes, you are two and a half minutes into a routine and people are like, “That’s great. What else you got?”

It’s so true. Writers are the same way, I would say. I am also curious and if this is something you don’t want to talk about, I am okay with that. It touched me how open you were about the fact that 2024 has been difficult for you as a Jewish person and there were all these protests on campus. I know you talked about how you had to write several different versions of this. I thought it was touching that you were vulnerable and honest about that in the speech. I was curious if you got good feedback on that portion of it too because I know it’s a weird time right now and not everybody is nice.

I did cycle through so many different versions of this because this is a complicated issue that most people have complicated feelings about. This is not a binary argument, good or bad. That’s a lot of times what happens these days. Things get flattened. Complicated issues get flattened and pushed into a binary framework of bad or good. When in truth, that’s not the world.

Ultimately, I’m an employer. I hire people and mentor people. These are people about to leave college and go to professional environments. What do I want them to know without being preachy? In the end, I wanted them to know freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequence. You can believe what you believe in and stand up for it. I encourage people to, but I also want you to think through the consequences.

If you say what’s in your heart, that’s awesome but people may not line up behind you. People may feel differently and may be opposed to your employer’s point of view. It’s a safer arena to do things like that. In college, it gets more challenging to be that outspoken as a professional. I didn’t want to be lectur-y about it. I thought if I gave an example instead of saying, “This is what happened in our life. These people said these things. They have every right to it. It’s how they feel. That’s their values.”

They ended up being inconsistent with hours and we made a decision about how we either wanted to stay or not stay in business with them. In our case, an organization founded by two holocaust survivors, it’s a pretty simple decision. We’re not going to choose to be in partnership with people who are overtly anti-Semitic.

I have a lot of patience and heart for college students trying on identities, learning, protesting, and using their voice, especially ones who are digital natives who have grown up in an environment that encourages that. There also needs to be equal weight put out there in the world. You can say anything you want. God Bless America on that front, by the way. Know that there may be consequences to that and it may be a consequence you haven’t experienced by living in the bubble that you’ve been living in.

Best Shape Of Her Life

Going back to Peloton, I’m switching up on you. You said you’re in the best shape of your life at 51. Have you always been an active person? I know you said you can’t ride a bike but you seem very energetic.

Not that I can’t ride a bike. I could have nine bears chasing me and the only way out would be to get on a bike and it would not be a good ending. I was a high school athlete, lacrosse, and soccer player. I was a collegiate lacrosse player. I moved to Japan in my twenties and became a runner because I had nothing else to do. I lived in the middle of rural Japan in a rice-farming village. I ran my first half marathon at age 29 with a young baby waiting for me at the finish line.

At age 29, first half marathon. Age 39, first marathon. I did the Marine Corps Marathon. In my 40s, I got very bad first undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, then mistreated Lyme disease. That was debilitating for several years, then we moved from Washington DC to Los Angeles. I started a new job. My 40s were not great in terms of my health and started to work my way back toward it.

Peloton was my first step toward a recommitment to health, riding consistently. I’m riding like a maniac. You would think I was riding for my life but I think it was the combination of feeling cooped up and having time. I’m a big walker. I started running again a little bit during the pandemic. I haven’t been lately but, now I live in this dreamy little sleepy beach town and we walk a lot of the beach. I’ve been active my whole life. The only thing I’m not good at and I should be and I should use Peloton more. I know I need to strength train more. Everyone keeps telling me to do it.

Crystal is an evangelist for strength.

I am. It’s very important.

It’s so important, especially at my stage of life and health. I’m working on it. In my head, I’m good at it. I’m getting there.

We got to get you doing a Power Zone-esque challenge with Rebecca Kennedy’s new drop. That’s what we need to do.

We need to get her a Tonal.

Maybe you need to find a way to have Adrian Williams come and live in my house for a while.

You better wait in line. There’s a whole long line before you. I have never seen so many women turn into little giddy school girls as people do around Adrian Williams. It is so funny.

If I just start doing Adrian Williams’s classes all the time, then I’ll get strong. I do feel like I’m in good shape right now.

That’s good. I’m very glad to hear that and we’ll have Adrian do a special program for you. We’ll see if he will like I have any power over him.

I will send you free Hobby tickets for life.

I had free Hobby tickets and I never used them. It’s baked into the job with four every game.

I’ll come up with something better.

Peloton Instructors

Think pop culture, music, and TV, then you got him. I know that you said those three instructors are your favorite instructors. That’s for the bike. Do you take any other content on the Peloton platform?

I love the outdoor walking classes. That’s like an underrated platform inside of Peloton. The outdoor classes are incredible. In that, I do all of them. I love Jess King as a walking coach. They’re all good. I love the meditation. Ross Rayburn in your ear at 2:00 in the morning when you can’t sleep. I’m sad he’s gone, but I hope they hang on to his content forever. The same with Kristin McGee. The meditation is terrific.

I’ve done a little bit of yoga. They’re great. That’s in one of those like, “I’m going to do yoga,” and I don’t. I’ll get there. I haven’t taken a bad class yet in Peloton. I think the instructors are all top-notch in everything I’ve tried. I am flirting with a tread to start to get back into the running, hiking, and bootcamp classes. It means that I also have to clean out the garage. What’s the fun in that? The tread is high on my list.

You have to pay one of those professional organizers to come over to take out your garage.

I have a sixteen-year-old son.

There you go. You’re right. That’ll work.

If you go that route, it’ll happen.

With the sixteen-year-olds, they’re coming to you every ten seconds, “What do you want me to do with this?”

That’s true. I have fantastic kids. The incentive structure has to be put together in a way that it’s probably easier to just go get professional help.

What you’re paying for and that situation is for them not to b*tch the whole time. That’s got a value.

It’s priceless.

It has a value. That’s true. What about you two?

I b*tch a lot.

He does. Brian has headed off to college and he’s going to be nineteen. He started college in 2023. It was a whole thing. If you want to know, I’ll send you the bonus episode. You can tune in to that. It got crazy, but it wasn’t his fault. Very important to say. My daughter, Sydney, is going to be doing her senior year and already looking at colleges for 2025. We’re in that fun time.

That’s fun. You guys went for efficiency. We’re going to do this, boom, boom.

Efficiency would be the type of apartment we’ll be living in soon.

That’s true. Also, we’re a blended family. He had his boys before I came along and I had Sydney separately. We did not have children together.

Got it. How fun.

He didn’t want to have any more kids. They’re great kids.

I adore mine too. I have a 23-year-old and a 16-year old and I feel like the luckiest person in the world. My husband is a Peloton rider too. He rides less than I do. He knows how to ride a real bike. He gets out and does more adventurous stuff than I do. He also got into riding a lot during the pandemic. He ran and rode and rode with Christine. He was in the tribe for a while, but he has drifted from the tribe a little bit.

He got back outside. I get it.

Leaderboard Name

What is your leaderboard name?

It’s going to sound unoriginal because in truth it is. It’s LASpin, which people might think is like spin. I’m Lindsey A. Spindle. It’s just like the spin works.

I was in here like if it doesn’t play on spin, I don’t even know what you’re doing.

Funnily enough, the first fifteen years of my career were public relations, so the spin works for me in this project.

You check a lot of boxes.

It’s LASpin72 because that’s the year I was born. I didn’t know, when I got into Peloton, how creative certain people were in the leaderboard naming context. If I had known, I would have attended to maybe be slightly more interesting but then when you have one, you have one.

You can change it anytime.

I know.

I changed mine. Mine started so awful back in the day when I first got my bike. It was HeadedUp, like headed up the leaderboard. It was so bad, and then we decided to do the show The Clip Out.

I was like, “You should go change your leaderboard name to ClipOutCrystal.”

You couldn’t have stopped me from getting down the stairs to change it fast enough. I was like, “That’s so much better than what I have.”

Yours is very good. I was one of those people when I first started because I couldn’t ride a bike. I had never been in fancy bike shoes. I am one of those who got stuck.

I was stuck.

“How do I get out of here?” I was one of those people trapped on the bike.

Almost everybody when you first start. There’s not that many people that do it without having issues with it. Honestly, I’m the only person that rides my bike. For the longest time, they stayed on the bike.

They just take their shoes on.

Why not?

I remember people are like, “Matt Wilpers does these great cycling drills to get better at doing all the mechanics right.” I’m like, “Great. I’m all in. I’ll do those.” In the middle of it, he’s like, “Clip out your left and ride with your right. Clip out your right and ride with your left.” I’m like, “What?” Clipping out for me is like full stop and concentrate. How do people do this while their moving?

When I do those videos with Matt, I never unclip my foot. I stopped putting any pressure on that foot.

That’s what I do. One leg goes full limb and I used the other. I don’t how to get out of one and keep it going.

That’s precious pedaling time that we are wasting.

Do you need to change your name? Are you like ClipOutCrystal with an asterisk? Except for when Matt Wilpers tells me though.

I never thought of that. You have a point.

That will be your new leaderboard name, ClipOutCrystal* and you folks can come up with a new one for me.

She’s mostly ClipOutCrystal.

PelotonCommencementSpeechLady. That’s not good either. Maybe one of your listeners will come up with a better one for me.

COSpinMent.

I like it. She’s thinking about it. I don’t know if she does.

I’m with you. I fully put my leaderboard name in your hands.

Advice For Newcomers

Do you have any advice for people just now entering the world of Peloton?

Sure. I might be better at giving advice to 21-year-olds.

We have a 21-year-old just entering the world of Peloton.

My 23-year-old may disagree. Although, she did say I gave her some good advice, which I don’t know if it’s appropriate for your show. We can cycle back to that if you want. My advice is if someone like me can get on that bike who can barely ride a regular bicycle, and 600 rides later capable of riding a 120-minute ride, it is to stick with it. It’s okay to just start and not be very good. A lot of people are intimidated by the technology, but the best thing about it is you get to try it in the privacy of your home. You might have a spouse that makes fun of you. I’m not looking at anyone, Tom. I should be an inspiration to people. If someone as bad as I am can make it work, I guarantee you can too. Stick with it. There are a lot of us who get cemented into our routines or our beliefs about what we are or are not capable of doing. The Peloton is an amazing place to figure out all these things that you’re capable of doing. My advice is to be curious. Try it. What do you have to lose?

Be bike curious.

You could be that too.

You can be either. We’re not judging.

In this instance, we’re just talking about the bike. Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to join us. Before we let you go, let everybody know where they can find you in all the places. I’m assuming you’re the sort that doesn’t mind being found.

Reach Lindsey

I’m not that exciting. I am on Instagram. I’m a big reader. If you’re interested in seeing cute dogs, my children, and a lot of book recommendations, come find me on Instagram. I have a Facebook account, but I don’t use it that much these days. It’s not good. Election year is not good.

We hear you.

LinkedIn if you’re looking for jobs. I’m always happy. to help people up in their careers and episodically on the leaderboard. It’s probably the best way to find me. I’m pretty much a Power Zone exclusive like flipping a cliff gospel ride or a Hannah Frankson everywhere. If you’re a Power Zone rider, you’ll find me and I do mean it when I say if I can never be helpful to anyone in the Peloton community, I feel like I’ve gotten so much more than I have given. If anyone watches my speech and it resonates and there’s something I can be helpful to someone, please feel free to reach out.

That’s wonderful. That’s nice of you. Thank you very much and thank you for being on the show.

A lot of us get cemented into our routine or beliefs about what we are not capable of doing, and Peloton is an amazing place to figure out all these things that you're actually capable of doing. Share on X

I’m so excited that you invited me on. I might be the least accomplished Peloton rider you’ve had on your show. Thank you for an equal opportunity.

You are not not accomplished. That’s not even a thing. You’re very accomplished and you had a great story. Not only about the commencement but how you got your Peloton. Stop talking yourself down. Thank you again.

Thank you so much.

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I guess that brings this episode to a close. Until next time, where can people find you?

People can find me on Facebook at Facebook.com/crystaldokeefe. They can find me on all the socials and the Peloton leaderboard @ClipOutCrystal.

You can find me on Twitter @RogerQBert or Facebook at Facebook.com/tomokeefe. You can find the Show online at Facebook.com/TheClipOut. While you’re there, like the page and join the group. Don’t forget our Patreon where for $5 a month, you get all sorts of bonus content, and we like you a little extra. That’s it for this one. Thanks for tuning in and until next time, keep pedaling, and running, and rowing.

Bye.

 

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