I used to think it was ridiculous that Peloton would encourage you to work out work out work out and then put out reminders on social media, “Don’t forget to take your rest day!”

There was a disconnect, I thought, between their messages to constantly use their app and also to exercise in a healthy, non-obsessive way.

That has changed over time, because they’ve increased their offerings to include things like meditations…but also I think they’ve just gotten better at the messaging too.

That’s why I thought it was a little unusual that they put out this 100-day streak challenge to start 2025.

But, I also thought, “I want to do that.”

I would like to first say that for all of my quirks, I’m not much of an exercise streaker.

I mean, you know me: I think I would love to keep track of something like that.

But I think it would absolutely drive me out of my mind and become something I obsessed over and put everything else in my life at risk in order to continue a streak.

So you won’t find me as one of these people who runs a mile a day for 1,000 days or earning too many streak badges on Peloton.

(I don’t even like getting less than a gold in the monthly challenges - but I allowed myself to fall one strength workout short of gold in December when I wasn’t feeling too great those final days of the year and figured it was better to rest. That’s progress. [Although I also knew I had 100 days coming up that I had to stay healthy for.])

But here’s why this one is appealing to me: like I said, Peloton has a lot of offerings. If I’m not feeling like something big over these next 100 days (and I fully acknowledge I shouldn’t be doing anything big for 100 consecutive days), I can do a stretch (which I should be doing anyway) or give a meditation a shot. (I’m 0-for-1 on enjoying meditations so far in my Peloton life.)

I think it was during training for my second marathon that I did a core workout every day I ran. Doing 100 straight days of core workouts is not something that is out of the realm of possibility.

And the timing of 100 days means this will take us into mid-April. Within that time I’ll be back to running on a regular basis (for those who don’t know, I took December off from running to rest some plantar fasciitis and haven’t gotten back to running regularly yet), so really, 100 days is not a lot of days to fill with other strength workouts or the aforementioned stretching, or a ride on the bike.

You don’t have to twist my arm to use the Peloton app. Whether it’s an outdoors run or a Pilates class, bike or tread, I’m all-in. (Well, not all all-in. I don’t have a rower.) This won’t be the last time I write about Peloton - I have another Peloton-connected goal on my list of 2025 goals.

But I thought it was important to get to this one early on in the write-ups because it is dominating so much of my early part of 2025.

100 straight days, to be exact.