NORTHERN
MAGAZINE
He calls running his necessity, and he’s not the only one who feels this way. Back in 2012, Dailey began meeting with a Anyone with a sibling knows the challenge handful of other men from Hamilton of trying to carve out your own niche in this County to train for local races, creating the world. TJ Dailey had brothers who excelled Meshingomesia Track Club. The club has in soccer, basketball and other sports. When since grown, and people have also moved, Dailey discovered running, his world was which means members are spread across forever changed. the country now. They remain connected through their love of running. “Once I got into it, I realized how much it balances me,” he says. “It helps me open my “We have almost 40 members nationwide, mind and process things for the day, releases but now instead of us all running together, stress, and I always feel so accomplished they have developed their own running after doing it.” pods,” says Dailey, the team’s captain. Writer / Christy Heitger-Ewing Photography Provided
OCTOBER 2020
To stay active and motivated, the group signs up for various races. To train for those races, the team uses a smartphone application called Strava, which is like a social media platform for endurance athletes. The mobile fitness tracking application, which has 60 million users globally, enables users to upload and analyze their workouts. “Think Facebook but with an endurance support focus,” says Dailey of the application, explaining that athletes can track runs on their watch or other device, and the information is imported into the
