Coaches

  • Rejean

    Rejean is the Founder & Head Coach of Pace & Mind(2014), former Coach of Nike Run Club Toronto, and former Head Coach & Creative Director of Adidas Runner Toronto.

    A former competitive runner, Rejean started running casually while in the Canadian Army in 2004. He ran a marathon debut of 2:17 in 2011, following it with winning the Canadian Marathon Championships in 2012, and has medaled at the Canadian Half Marathon Championships on four separate occasions.

    Coaching has been his main focus since 2013. He builds his athletes training plans with the experience and knowledge he gained over years of working closely with some of the countries top coaches and experts, and while spending months training in Ethiopia with some of the world's best athletes and trainers.

  • Paddy

    Paddy is an established elite runner and coach with Pace & Mind. Born and raised in county Galway Ireland, he moved to Toronto in 2013.

    Always having an interest in athletics growing up (watching Irish super stars on tv Sonia O’ Sullivan, Eamonn Coghlan and Catherina McKiernan) Paddy first trained for triathlon, where he was age group Canadian national champion in 2016. It was in Triathlon that Paddy found his love for running.

    Since then, Paddy has finished 6th at the Canadian half marathon championships, ran marathons in 2:24 and 2:25, took the silver medal in Leinster half marathon championships and won the Galway county 5k title back in Ireland, as well as numerous podiums in Toronto area races over the last few years.

    Paddy has been working with Pace & Mind for over three years and love seeing the growth of our athletes from when the join the team. Paddy believes in a simple approach to training of hard work, dedication and a good life balance, if you aren’t smiling when you get to run you are doing something wrong!