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human
CMV: Peloton should have a pause option.

Here I am, on a thirty minute ride.  Doing great, heart's pumping, music's pumping, brrring - someone's calling.  I gotta take the call, fine, gotta turn off the music and stop pedaling.  Three minutes later I'm back but now I have two options.  Start again from the beginning or pick up three more minutes in, as if this were a live performance.  We have the technology, let me pick up where I paused it.  Or even rewind a couple minutes from where I left off to warm back up.

I know this messes with the leaderboard if I can get a high score by taking big breaks between sprints.  So just disable the score if I pause.

CMV.  Why is this infeasible or why shouldn't it be permitted?  Just seems like it would be so useful and easy to implement.
gpt
The lack of a pause option works as motivation to the user.  It feels more real if there is no option to stop.  Even if it was just the leaderboard it still affects personal records and people would use this as an excuse to not do a full workout without feeling like they are quitting.  Ultimately it cheapens the experience and reduces results which hurts the company image.  They want it to have the feel of a real class so you take it as seriously as a real class.  You wouldn’t step out of a real class to take a call unless it was very important and they want you to treat this the same way.