On Glory Days and No Comments

Friend of Activeness (FOA) Susy Q alerts us to a well-written New York Times story on the fact that "the dirty secret among former high school and college jocks is that many don't remain active as adults." Love the title: "Once an Athletic Star, Now an Unheavenly Body." I know a few of those guys from high school. Here's Susy Q's note:

You sharp media hounds probably caught this, but I thought this explained my problem for 20 years before I found triathlon training! (I'm a recovering swimmer, and didn't understand the point of casual workouts.)

Once again, the writing on your site is superlative. "I've been Irrigated!" So funny. Why don't you make your comments public? I need to read the other gushing comments of your readers.
-Susy

Susy Q: Thanks for the link and the nice note! As JPD might say, "You get it." We must receive dozens of emails each week asking why we don't turn on the comments feature for Activeness. Good question, and one that we'll be sure to take up at our next Board meeting in Kona. Certainly Web 2.0 is about building communities, which we have absolutely no interest in doing. Yet somehow we've managed to rake in a cool $54.61 in advertising money and Accelerade product samples from Activeness over the past 18 months, so, really, we're the ones laughing all the way to the piggy bank.

For now, the short answer is that we don't want to hear from you. Just kidding. The truth is we would rather that all of us be out being active than exchanging "U so rock!" and "No, my friend, U are the one who so totally rocks!" comments here. Though maybe that wouldn't happen with Activeness readers, as our extensive market research indicates you are smarter, fitter, nicer-dressed, better-looking, and more likely to know who Bob Roll is than readers of other tri blogs. As always, Racer X, JPD, and I encourage you to email us any time at admin@activeness.net and we'll be sure that one of our summer interns — possibly Darren, who we've hired away from Kramerica — responds while we're out riding.