Kendall Toole Kicked My Ass
Richie Buxo. Shutterstock Images.A couple weeks ago, Peloton Instructor Kendall Toole came into the office. She was here for an interview on Chicks in the Office, but walking around the office, she was turning heads. As a Peloton rider since quarantine, I recognized her immediately and shot a note on one of my Pelo-buddies and founder of the #BunsOfAnarchy group on Peloton, PFT Commenter. We fangirled for a moment and got a picture with one of our favorite spin instructors and she invited us to a class.
Monday was that class. Needless to say, were were excited.
The Peloton office is beautiful. Several sparkling wood floors with clean white walls in the middle of the New York City Highline, which is a scenic path through the concrete jungle that dreams are made of. PFT had an interview, so I met up with him there. We were escorted in and got spots right up front.
There was a buzz among the 20 or so other people taking the class. I knew Peloton was big, but I had no idea the fans were so into the brand! People from Canada, Wisconsin, and more flew out for this class! It was a 30 minute pop punk ride and there was a palpable buzz in the room. The club lights make it difficult for photos, but Kendall made her entrance and the boys were ready to go.
About 15 seconds before the ride started, I turned to PFT and told him I was going to try and win. There was an in-studio tracker so you could see who how other people in the studio were doing. It was a pretty fit bunch, but there was no reason I couldn't win the gold.
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I had high hopes and was the class leader for the first seven and a half minutes, but I ran out of gas wayyyyy too early and finished 3rd in the class. I typically do 20 minute rides and I knew pretty quickly that I wasn't going to be able to go the distance at a 1st overall pace. With about 8 minutes left PFT and I were both drained and we had to put our 4s up and finish strong. It was a tough ass ride. The music was great and there were lots of times to stand up and mash but I'm in off-season shape right now. *I'm not an excuses guy but I do have a seat cover on my bike at home and the studio didn't which caused my testicles to go numb 45 seconds into the official ride. Everyone knows you get your leg power from your testes. But again, I'm not an excuses guy.
After the ride there was a photo opp and we got to catch up with Kendall who didn't even look like she broke a sweat. She did all the right cadences during the ride, was engaging and talked to us the whole time and looked no worse for wear after. Pretty incredible.
After that, PFT and I hit the very nice and modern locker room. He told me, "Just don't look at my dick". It was easy advice as I'm a locker room friendly dude and am on record as getting very bummed out whenever I see a penis in a gym locker room. We toweled up and went into showers that were next to each other and unfortunately I could not figure out for the life of me how to get the water to even lukewarm in my stall. So PFT was had to listen to extremely uncomfortable groans as the ice cold water ricocheted off of my skin for a couple minutes.We then dried off and had a nice 12 minute walk back to the office after that very fun workout.
If you want more Kendall, check her out on the Chicks in the Office pod here: