Joe Shayne and is a certified running Coach & a Wellness Director at CORE Services Group, Inc., for a Social Services Organization in Brooklyn. Joe is the founder and Head Coach of Team We Run Kings, (aka TEAMWRK) and a co-founder to PACE Runs, Inc.
Joe has run 14 marathons including 3-Boston Marathons and 5 out of the 6 majors in 3:05 or better.
Born and raised in Hell’s Kitchen (Manhattan), Joe has always been a fast learner and prided himself in helping out others as best he could. Joe always respected and understood the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and dreamed of one day sharing his passion of wellness to the community at-large. In high school, Joe played on the baseball and basketball teams and in college, he stayed active with intramural sports and weight training. It wasn’t until after his 30th birthday where he fell in love with long distance running. It wasn’t until witnessing his best friend quit drinking and smoking cigarettes to focus on the NYC Marathon, where Joe believed that he could accomplish the same feat. “I was drinking a little more than I usually would and was in a transitional period of my life and wanted to pursue a major accomplish like that for myself,” says Joe. Little did he know he would inspire a small village to follow suit.
In 2016, one year after running his first marathon, (by that time he had already run 3) Joe Shayne immersed myself into the NYC running community by being a Pacer for Harlem Run and participated in running crews and groups like BRidge Runners, November Project and Nike Run Club from time to time – Joe had improved in the sport dramatically dropping his marathon time from 3:59 down to 3:05 and again down to 2:58 thus qualifying for the Boston Marathon standard all within 10 months. His friends and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity brothers were so impressed with his discipline that they asked him to train them for their 1st Half Marathon and he obliged. That is when Joe founded #NoSleepTilBKHalf which would soon become Team We Run Kings; and thereafter he became Coach Joe Shayne. From there Coach Shayne has successfully coached over 250 runners and walkers to run long distance races, lose weight and take on a healthy lifestyle where he hopes they continue throughout their lifetime.
One year later, Joe was approached by one of his members to help put together a Greek Fun Run 5K and later helped co-found what is now PACE Runs. A few months later Coach Shayne was approached by one of his other members to become a Corporate coach to CORERUNS where he trained 10 of their staff members to run their first New York City Marathon.
Currently, Joe lives in Hell’s Kitchen with his girlfriend and serves as a Wellness coach for CORE Services Group, Inc., a Social services organization Headquartered in Brooklyn. Joe coaches TeamWRK & CORERUNS athletes on Tuesday evenings, Thursday mornings and Saturday Mornings. Joe also coaches a group of runaway youth. Throughout the year, Joe co-hosts roughly 10 race events on the weekends with PACE Runs. When he is not running, coaching or hosting wellness events for CORE or race events, Joe enjoys travelling, playing golf, going to the movies with his girlfriend and spending family time with his siblings, nieces and nephews.
