Joslyn Thompson Rule City to Surf Plan Revealed

The Peloton tread instructor is taking on the Sydney race for the first time, and she’s documenting every training tweak along the way.

Joslyn Thompson Rule is six weeks out from City to Surf, and she confirmed it on Instagram on July 14. It’s the first time the Peloton tread and strength instructor has taken on the 14km run from Sydney’s central business district to Bondi Beach, and she’s documenting the buildup as a six-part training diary, opening with a post labeled Week 1 of 6.

This fun race is set for August 9, 2026. She’s calling it “iconic and achievable,” language that echoes how the race itself is marketed, and for good reason. The event has been run for 56 years, draws close to 90,000 entrants annually, and finishes with a major Bondi Beach payoff.

The training diary opens with mindset rather than mileage. “Easy work” is the phrase she’s using to frame the six weeks ahead, less a promise that the training will be light and more a way of reframing the discipline of showing up.

For the Joslyn Thompson Rule City to Surf Plan, Prehab & Recovery Are Priority

Joint care shows up early and often. Hips, knees, and ankles are named specifically as her prehab and rehab focus, paired with gym footage of her working through resistance training on a cable machine. For an instructor who spends much of her week coaching Tread classes, building in joint-specific maintenance work is a practical safeguard against the wear that comes with stacking running volume on top of an already demanding teaching schedule.

Anyone who follows Joslyn closely knows that her approach to strength is straightforward, no-nonsense, but lighthearted. We expect to see this through-line in her race prep.

 

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The Plan Takes A Flexible Approach

Her plan also has to coexist with her job, and she’s built flexibility in on purpose. A hard run she teaches live, such as an intervals class, counts as her own interval session for the week rather than requiring a separate workout on top of it. It’s a practical solution for an instructor whose work and training overlap by design.

That same flexibility shows up in her endurance work. Instead of running a long, easy 60 to 75 minute session every week, she’s swapping that time onto the bike, then following it with one interval run and one hills run. The approach keeps her weekly running volume from climbing too fast while still building the aerobic base a 14km race requires.

Strength First, With Chicago as the Benchmark

Strength work anchors the plan. In one clip, she works through a floor-based mobility and stability sequence before laying out her goal in her own words. The course’s 2km uphill start and undulating back half make it a tougher 14km than the distance alone suggests, and she’s treating it the same way she treated the Chicago Marathon: the goal is to start and finish feeling strong, not simply to finish.

That framing tracks with her recent work on theclipout.com. Much of her 2026 has centered on building unofficial strength programming for Peloton members, including a summer stretch of flexible strength options she called Summer Strength Recess. The same posterior-chain and stability focus that shows up in that programming appears in her own prep for the race, suggesting the training principles she coaches are the ones she’s applying to herself.

Could Tim Robards Factor In While She’s in Sydney?

Joslyn and Tim Robards, Peloton’s Australian Guest Instructor, have already shared a class together. Their Two For One Full Body Strength session was released during Robards’ Peloton Studios London residency in December 2025. Robards is Sydney-based and has led Peloton content on the ground there before, including June’s Global Running Day 5K with the Coogee Run Club. Peloton has also been investing visibly in the Australian market this year, most recently with the 45-class Australian Edit collection.

None of that confirms an offiical Joslyn Thompson Rule City to Surf tie-in, but an existing on-platform pairing, Robards’ home turf, and Peloton’s ongoing Australian push line up in a way that would make a run club appearance or a filmed session together a logical move if she’s on the ground in Sydney around race week. We’ll see!

Five more weeks of training remain. Between the joint-focused prehab work, the flexible scheduling, and the Chicago-informed mindset, the early posts suggest a buildup built for durability rather than just mileage. We’re rooting for you, Joslyn, and we’re excited to see your training unfold!

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