Well, it seemed like a good idea.

They’d canceled a bike race in Brooklyn, N.Y., last weekend, owing to the coronavirus and new rules about “social distancing,” so now the event promoter was taking it from the leafy real-life roadway of Prospect Park to the virtual cycling world of the computer program Zwift. Everyone who had intended to race outside could now race inside, so long as they had a bike, a stationary trainer so they could pedal in place, and some kind of screen to watch the action unfold.

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