(From now until the New Year’s Day, we will be featuring our Top 10 most popular posts of 2011.)
#3 The not-so-glamorous life of track athletes
Galen Rupp (left) and Mo Farah (right) attempt to make the best use of their time during a flight delay on Wednesday in Barcelona, Spain. This photo was taken by their coach, Alberto Salazar.
First of all, it’s no secret that when there is any fresh content related to Galen Rupp (or Mo Farah, Alan Webb, Dathan Ritzenhein) there is almost always a rush by other websites to link it, comment on it, etc.
And TrackFocus visits and pageviews spike when something is linked to LetsRun.
We’ve been fortunate to have some access and very little competition reporting on the Oregon Project and it’s stars.
This photo, snapped with Alberto Salazar’s phone, said a lot about track and field athletes and how they live during the summer touring season. We were fortunate to obtain this photo in the first place. It’s worth a thousand words — at least — telling the tale of how runners as accomplished as Farah and Rupp will take their precious sleep anywhere they can get it — even on the floor of the airport terminal. This post netted us 9,333 pageviews and counting.
