Gabe Bergado, “The Tenth Circle of Hell is a Cycling Class” (2016)

“Tonight I looked into the abyss. It’s full of muted blue lights with a woman named Nancy yelling at you over a cardio remix of The Police’s ‘Message in a Bottle’ while you’re furiously pedaling toward nowhere at all.

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“I’m unsure if I’ll be returning to the spin bikes that sit at the mouth of hell, forever moving and not moving into oblivion at the same time. I don’t know if my body could every forgive me if I did it to myself again. Sure, others love it and return time after time. Power to them.” […]    –Medium, (June 9, 2016)

You can read the full article and more of Gabe Bergado’s work on Medium.