By Matt Sarnecki
Outside Ritual Coffee on a dawn more rain than mist, 40 or so spandex-clad cyclists standing under the damp glow of streetlamps finish the last of their coffees.
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It’s their most common route — one that to my mind that doesn’t seem like a “friendly frolic,” but three hours and 40-plus miles of mildly gratuitous physical exertion.
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