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Ayesha McGowan achieved her dream, and went from bike-commuting preschool teacher to becoming the first African American woman to become a professional road cyclist.

The Central Park Raccoons, a loose group of cyclists, gather after dark for impromptu races. Anything on two wheels (except electric bikes) can compete.

What defines being a professional cyclist? A mix of racing, social media influencing, and knowing how to play the game.

Drew Reynolds Jerry Francois is a born-and-raised New Yorker—scratch that—a born-and-raised Brooklynite. Very little intimidates him. But in the aftermath of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder, when the 25-year-old was shot and killed while out for a run in South Georgia last March, Francois began to fear going out for his nightly runs in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood where he lives. “It hit me hard,” he tells Runner’s World. “His life was taken for doing something that Im sure that he just en...