Christian Vande Velde is officially back teaching classes at Peloton again in 2024.
He joined Matt Wilpers in the studio audience this week for Matt’s 90 minute power zone endurance ride. During the class, Matt announced that Christian Vande Velde would be teaching some Peloton classes again in 2024. Christian was spotlighted during the class, and had a microphone, and gave a few comments during the class as well.
Christian Vande Velde’s first Peloton class teaching again will be a 45 min Pro Cyclist Ride on April 7th, 2024 @ 12:00pm ET.
The class will have members in the studio. As Matt’s ride was taking place this morning, Peloton quietly added Christian’s ride to the PSNY studio booking website. At time of publishing, members were still able to book into the class in person. So the majority of members who will be in class tomorrow would have signed up this morning for class (Update: The class is now full).
Christian (who you’ll sometimes see referred to in the Peloton community as just “CVV”) has not taught a Peloton class since March 2020. He is considered a “guest instructor” – and has remained listed as a guest instructor on the Peloton website, giving people hope he might return.
Historically, Christian would teach every 2-3 months or so. He would teach teach one or two classes in a weekend, and then return again in a few months to do the same thing.
At this time, it’s not clear how often Christian will be back on the schedule, or if he will have a “regular” time slot every few weeks/months. However, during Matt’s class today both Matt & Christian both said they were looking forward to his classes being a little more consistent, or structured, so Christian’s appearances might be more frequent now.
Over the years, Christian has been asked on social media about if and when he might return to Peloton. He has always indicated that he hoped that he would be back, mentioning he wanted to return, but it was up to Peloton give him space on the schedule.
Christian’s classes have slowly been purged over the last year due to Peloton’s regular class library maintenance. At one point, every single class of his ended up being removed. However, Peloton quietly added two classes back to the library – which are the only two available as of today (until his new classes take place).
Christian is a former pro cyclist, having competing in the Tour de France 11 times, along with many other races. He now works for NBC as a cycling analyst, helping cover cycling events across the world.
If you’re not familiar with Christian, you can find him on social media at @christianvdv.
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This has been a long time coming and all of us PZPACK riders couldn’t be happier! Peloton listened to our rally cry! Welcome back CVV!
I’ve really missed Christian’s classes. Since he is an elite professional road cyclist, his classes are the closest thing to doing a training ride outside in the real world. Christian is the only instructor I’ve seen who ends up as sweaty as I do by the end of the class. He really puts everything into it. No dancing, no Hallmark Card platitudes, just a good, solid workout for cyclists.
Awesome Sauce! Excited for this.