Witch City Triathlon
posted over 2 years ago | 2 comments
This weekend F.I.R.M. held the Witch CIty Triathlon, up in Salem Massachussetts. The swim took place in an enclosed inlet. Although the race director set the markers the night before, the tides managed to change it all up, and the swim course was ...
Littleton Appleman Triathlon
posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
1:35 read the clock at the finish. I had more gas in the tank then I expected at the end, and should have expended more on the run, but overall I'm pleased, and somewhat tired two days later. I met one fellow triathlete who told me he won the 50+ ...
My first sprint triathlon of the summer
posted over 2 years ago, updated less than a minute later | 0 comments
This Sunday I am returning to participate in a sprint triathlon. The route sounds fantastic:
The race starts with an "honest" GPS measured ½ mile swim in Long Lake. The 10 mile bike course has fast flats, challenging hills and exhilarating descen...
The race starts with an "honest" GPS measured ½ mile swim in Long Lake. The 10 mile bike course has fast flats, challenging hills and exhilarating descen...
Turning Fifty at Eons
posted over 2 years ago | 5 comments
I must confess that I hardly remember turning forty-nine. I remember the German Chocolate Cake, but only because it had to be! At Eons, we were totally focused on building a site for the fifty+ crowd, and at forty-nine I didn't think twice about a...
The Biology of the Heroism at Virgina Tech
posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
Our hearts and minds can't help but go out to the victims and the survivors of this tragedy.
David Brooks has a thought provoking piece in today's Times about the role biology is playing in the press in being used to expalin the killers
behavior...
David Brooks has a thought provoking piece in today's Times about the role biology is playing in the press in being used to expalin the killers
behavior...
DICE-K Red Sox Fenway Debut
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 10 hours later | 0 comments
I took a late night train home yesterday evening and met a friend who was at the game. It turned out DICE-K and old rivals wasn't the story, Felix Hernandez was. From the first pitch he reminded me of Dwight Gooden.The New York Times coverage was ...
Homesharing more popular than Paris Hilton
posted over 2 years ago, updated 5 minutes later | 0 comments
According to January 2007 search query log on Cranky.com, careers after retirement, brain builders (staying mentally healthy), alternative health practices and even homesharing are all more popular than heiress and pop icon Paris Hilton. Searches ...
Top overall search topic in cRANKy
posted over 3 years ago, updated about 1 hour later | 1 comment
You might think that Eons members, since they're all 50+, would be focusing their attention on the approach of the leisure lifestyle that supposedly awaits them after they stop working for a living. You'd be very wrong.
By far, the biggest topic ...
By far, the biggest topic ...
Most popular daily search last week
posted over 3 years ago, updated 1 day later | 0 comments
Last week's most popular daily search? Quilting. It WAS the CRANKy term that was featured at the top of the Eons Homepage, and that entry always gets a significant n...
Most searched-for person in cRANKy
posted over 3 years ago, updated about 23 hours later | 4 comments
You’ll be surprised to learn who is the most searched-for person in cRANKy since the launch of Eons on July 31. He’s not a politician, a movie or TV star, a singer, an athlete, or a sex symbol. And he lives in a city whose entire population could ...
