While You Are Sleeping: Early-morning workouts unite people at local studio, creating community with every cycle

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — While many people are still sleeping, others across East Tennessee are starting their day with a workout. For some, that means heading to a local cycling studio long before the sun comes up.

Before the cyclers arrive, staff at Current Cycle in Bearden are up and active, getting the studio ready for the earliest risers. While it’s quiet outside, the studio is quite the opposite.

“A lot of people don’t expect it to be as, I would say, hype as it is,” instructor Halle Hughes smiles. “It’s loud music, the lights are flickering. It’s literally like you’re at a club. It really is.”…

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