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A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class
It's hard to make friends as an adult. One lonely man in his 30s finds a nonjudgmental and supportive community at a local spin studio.
The bright sensation in my heart is replaced soon after with a burning in my chest, however, as Meg exhorts us to pedal at cartoonish Roadrunner speeds, pleading for us to tap our asses back like a demanding director on the set of an early-2000s rap music video. It requires a purging of entire realms of my shitty male points of view, from shaming self-talk to the latent homophobia I encounter within myself when the instructor tells us to dance, to “make it cute.” Tagged: adulthood, bicycles, Community, exercise, friendship, loneliness, masculinity, patriarchy, Personal Essay, Raleigh McCool, religion, Sports
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