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Clint Verran Running (CVR) started out as a small Physical Therapy clinic, owned and operated by Clint Verran. Clint is a Physical Therapist as well as a professional marathon runner. The main idea was to create a place where runners with injuries could come and receive quality running-specific Physical Therapy, administered from a fellow runner. Our motto has always been, “Your Running is Important to Us.” Our original clinic was (and still is) located in the rear of Hansons Running Shop’s Utica, Michigan location.
It has always been Clint’s belief that certain problems caused by abnormalities of the foot are best treated by a combination of orthotic correction and physical therapy. Clint has developed a unique, lightweight orthotic foot-bed that perfectly fits the needs of runners and athletes involved in running sports. The custom made foot beds are quick, economical, and most importantly, effective treatment for many common foot abnormalities.
It was after repeated requests from his Physical Therapy “success story” clients for guidance beyond injury rehab, that Clint decided to offer personal coaching. Along with coaching partner, Jackie Rzepecki, CVR now offers two unique coaching programs for runners of all abilities. Team CVR has become a huge success. Boston qualifiers, personal bests, and achievement of goals have become the hallmark of this exciting training experience.
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Men
Brad Bigalk
Age: 43
Hometown: Rochester Hills
Focus: Marathon
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 19:45 |
| Marathon | 3:16:01 |
Short Term Goal: Requalify for Boston or beat PR
Long term goal: enjoy running healthy during my 40's
Brian Smith
Age: 47
Hometown: Clarkston
Training for: Half Marathon, Marathon
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 18:21 |
| 10k | 40:29 |
| 10Mile | 1:04:14 |
| Half Marathon | 1:28:14 |
| Marathon | 2:59:45 |
Short Term Goal: Build up strength and avoid injury
Long Term Goal: PR ½ and full marathon, run Boston
Upcoming Races:
- Bayshore Half (5/29/10)
Craig Zurcher
Age: 42
Hometown: Rochester, MI
Training for: Marathon
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 19:14 (Glen Arbor 2007) |
| 10k | 40:47 (Oak Apple 2007) |
| 10 Mile | 1:07:46 (Crim 2008) |
| Half Marathon | 1:33:14 (Martian 2008) |
| 30k | 2:12:15 (Milford Labor Day 2007) |
| Marathon | 3:15:28 (Bay Shore 2008) |
Short Term Goal: Sub 3:15 at Bay Shore Marathon in 2010
Long Term Goal: Sub 3 hour marathon before turning 45
Upcoming Races:
- Bay Shore Marathon ( Traverse City , MI )
- Hometown Hustle ( Rochester , MI )
Dan Kugler
Age: 34
Hometown: Lake Orion
Current Distance Training For: Marathon
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 19:00 |
| 10k | 41:41 |
| 10 Mile | 1:05:57 |
| Half | 1:26:52 |
| Marathon | 3:11:39 |
Short Term Goal: PR at Boston . Complete a triathlon this summer.
Long Term Goal: Finish a 10K under 40 minutes. Finish a marathon under 3 hours.
Upcoming Races:
- Boston 2010
Dean Jarski
Age: 40
Hometown: Rochester Hills
High School: Plymouth Salem
College: LTU/ Oakland University
Major: EE/ MSCE
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 16:38 |
| 10k | 35:29 |
| 10M | 1:00:26 |
| Half Marathon | 1:18:24 |
| Marathon | 2:59:40 (2004) |
High School: 3rd in Regional for the 880.
Short Term Goal: 5:50 pace for 10 miles.
Long Term Goal: 6:00 pace Marathon and 5:00 pace for 5k
Jeff Mitchell
Age: 43
Hometown: Rochester Hills
Focus: Half Marathon
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 19:58 |
| Half Marathon | 1:33:13 |
| Marathon | 3:21:35 |
Short Term Goal: PR Half Marathon
Long term goal: Sub 3:20 (Stupid 3:20)
Upcoming Races:
- Corktown (March, Detroit , MI )
- Bayshore Half ( May, Traverse City , MI )
John Arsen
Age: 51
Hometown: Lake Orion
Focus: Marathon
| PRs: | |
| Marathon | 2:50:00 |
Short Term Goal: powder skiing in Utah
Long Term Goal: stay near the same PR
Upcoming Races:
- Boston 2010
- Bayshore Marathon 2010
John Crumm
Age: 38
Hometown: Clinton Township
High School: Sanford Meridan
College: Eastern Michigan Univ. and the University of Maryland
Major: BA History/Political Science / MCP Community Planning
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 19:05 |
| 10k | 45:51 |
| Half Marathon | 1:36:29 |
Short Term Goal: Reduce my time in 5k competitions
Long Term Goal: Run longer races
Joshua Metcalf
Age: 31
Hometown: Ferndale, MI
Focus: Marathon
| PRs: | |
| Marathon | 3:44 |
Short Term Goal: PR at the 2010 Austin Marathon
Long Term Goal: Sub 3hr
Upcoming Races:
- Chicago Shamrock (March)
- Corktown (March)
- Bayshore (May)
- Chicago 1/2 Marathon (RNR) (Aug)
- Chicago Marathon (Oct)
Kent (I aint gettin old) Tabor
Age: 51
Hometown: Roayl Oak, MI
Training for: Marathon, 10k
| PRs: | |
| Chug 4 Beers | 1 min 25 sec. |
| 4 Mile | 24:56 |
| 10k | 39:54 |
| Half Marathon | 1:26:10 |
| Marathon | 3:05:50 |
Short Term Goal: Break 3 hrs in marathon
Long Term Goal: keep breathing
Marc Guzzardo
Age: 49
Hometown: Shelby Township
Focus: Marathon
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 20:00 |
| Marathon | 3:17 |
Short Term Goal: Injury recovery
Long term goal: New Marathon PR
Upcoming Races:
- Chicago or Detroit Marathon
Marc Evans
Age: 50
Hometown: Oakland Township
Focus: Half Marathons
| PRs: | |
| 5k | |
| Marathon | |
Short Term Goal: Train for 10k's this summer, increasing the marathon this fall
Long term goal: Complete a 1/2 Ironman Triathlon
Upcoming Races:
- Corktown 4 mile
- Bayshore 1/2 marathon
Mike Franko
Age: 31
Hometown: Traverse City, MI
High School: Traverse City Senior High
College: Eastern Michigan University
Major: PLS, Psychology
| PRs: | |
| 400m | 49.9 |
| 800 m | 1:51.7 |
| 1500m | 3:49.2 |
| 3k Steeple | 8:55.6 |
| 5k | 14:17.1 |
| marathon | 2:19:30 |
High School: 2x All State Track
College: 1997 D1 All American Indoor Track, 4x Mid-Amercian Conference Runner-up, All Mid-American Conference Cross Country, 2x Central Collegiate Champion Short Term Goal: Get in Shape
Long Term Goal: sub 2:22 marathon
Mike recently has been slowly trying to come back into competitve running. He has had 3 knee surgeries over the past 2 years. This past month he made an impressive comback at the Great Lakes Relay for our team.
Pat Ward
Age: 49
Hometown: Port Huron
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 22:33 |
| 10k | 45:27 |
| Half Marathon | 1:40:04 |
| Marathon | 3:34 |
Short Term Goal: Rule the World
Long term goal: Ironman
Paul Ballinger
Age: 42
Hometown: Chesterfield Twp, MI
| PRs: | |
| Mile | 5:08 |
| 5k | 18:29 |
| 10k | 38:53 |
| 10 Mile | 1:04:53 |
| Half Marathon | 1:24:48 |
| Marathon | 3:08:24 |
Short Term Goal: PR at Detroit Marathon
Long Term Goal: Sub 3 hour marathon, sub 5 minute mile
Ron Ramaut
Age: 54
Hometown: Harper Woods Michigan
High School: Harper Woods High School
College: MCC
Major: Vehicle Design
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 24:14 |
| 8k | 41:13 |
| Marathon | 4:17:56 |
Short Term Goal: to gain speed and endurance
Long Term Goal: to run a 3:45 marathon and qualify for Boston
Scott Greb
Age: 41
Hometown: Washington Twp, MI
Training for: 5k, 10k
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 17:20 |
| 10k | 38:32 |
| 10Mile | 1:05:01 |
| Half Marathon | 1:26:18 |
Short Term Goal: break 17:30 again
Long Term Goal: make a comeback in the marathon
Upcoming Races:
- Oak Apple 10k
- Crim 10 miler
Shane Logan
Age: 28
Hometown: Yaktown
Training for: Marathons
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 15:54 |
| 10k | 32:51 |
| 10 Mile | 55:53 |
| Half Marathon | 1:13:27 |
| Marathon | 2:35:26 |
Short Term Goal: Be all that I can be and start triathlon racing
Long Term Goal: complete Ironman, break 230 for marathon, become faster than Clint "The Box" Verran
Terry Wyatt
Age: 42
Hometown: Union, KY
College: MOREHEAD STATE UNIV., NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIV., INDIANA WESLEYAN
Major: Music Ed.
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 17:53 |
| Half Marathon | 1:24:20 |
| Marathon | 2:54:34 |
Long Term Goal: 2:55 Houston '07
Women
Ana Flavia Easlick
Age: 35
Hometown: Oxford, MI
Focus: Half Marathon
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 31:19 |
| 10k | 1:04:36 |
Short Term Goal: Complete a Half Marathon
Long term goal: Complete a Marathon
Upcoming Races:
- Disney Princess Half Marathon
- Martian 5k
- Detroit Race for the Cure
- Dexter - Ann Arbor Half Marathon
- Charlevoix 10k
- Volkslaufe 5k
- Crim
- Mackinac Island 8 Mile
- Chicago Marathon
Argenta Lucas
Age: 39
Hometown: Tuskegee, AL
Focus: 5k-Marathon
| PRs: | |
| Marathon | 3:57:11 |
Short Term Goal: improve half marathon time
Long term goal: improve marathon time, run an ultra
Upcoming Races:
- Bill Roney 5k ( Utica , MI )
- Martian Half Marathon ( Dearborn , MI )
- Flying Pig Marathon
Bridget O'Brien-Mitchell
Age: 38
Hometown: Rochester Hills, MI
Training fo: 10k
| PRs: | |
| 5000 m | 28:17 |
| Half Marathon | 2:11:02 |
Short Term Goal: get some more speed back in my legs
Long Term Goal: Rock it
Upcoming Races:
- Corktown 5k (3/14/10)
- Bayshore 10k (5/29/10)
Danielle Hobbs
Age: 24
Hometown: Shelby Twp.
High School: Lamphere High School
College: Adrian College
Major: Mathematics
| PRs: | |
| 1500 m | 4:46.00 |
| 1 Mile | 5:17.90 |
| 3000m | 10:37.00 |
| 3000m Steeple | 11:06.70 |
| 5000m | 18:30 |
| 10,000m | 38:25.25 |
| 10 Mile | 1:11.08 |
| Marathon | 3:27:12 |
High School: MVP, State Qualifer (Cross Country and Track and Field) and School Records in 4x800m, 1600m, 3200m
College: 1st team All-MIAA, Academic All-American, All-Region, Provisional Qualifier for Nationals in 3000m Steeplechase, MV, Captain, Senior Athlete of the Year, School Records in 1500m, 3000m 3000m Steeple and 5000m
Short Term Goal: Keep improving all my times
Long Term Goal: Qualify for and complete the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii bfore I'm 30 (maybe later), break 3:00 in the marathon, run high to middle 10's in the steeple, break 5:00 in the mile, and break 18:00 in the 5k
Deanna Skelcy
Age: 42
Hometown: Rochester Hills
Focus: Half Marathon, 10k, TRI
| PRs: | |
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Short Term Goal: stay healthy and put in some quality miles, bikes and swims
Long term goal: stay healthy, go on a hiking trip, enjoy swimming, learn how to bike?
Upcoming Races:
- Bayshore Half ( May, Traverse City , MI )
Deb Bennethum
Age: 40+
Hometown: Rochester
Training for: Marathon
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 21:00 |
| Half Marathon | 1:38 |
| Marathon | 3:26:53 |
Short Term Goal: stop being injuried, want to run without nagging pain
Long Term Goal: see short term goal- when I can would like to train harder and reduce race times!Don't want any more stress fractures!!
Upcoming Races:
- Boston Marathon
- Big Sur Marathon
- Dragon Dash
- Solstice Run Crim
Jackie Joseph
Age:
Hometown: Detroit, MI
High School: Harrison High School -Farmington Hills, MI
College: Wayne State University, 1998
Major: Pharmacy
| PRs: | |
| marathon | 4:01 |
Short Term Goal: sub 4:15 marathon
Long Term Goal: 7 continent club
Jackie Rzepecki
Age: 27
Hometown: Buffalo, NY
High School: Frontier Sr. High
College: University of Houston (Houston, TX)
Major: Exercise Science, minor Biology
| PRs: | |
| 1500m | 4:28 |
| Mile (road) | 4:50 |
| 3k Steeple | 10:46 |
| 5k | 16:35 |
| Half Marathon | 1:15:43 |
| Marathon | 2:46.43 |
Short Term Goal: set a personal best in the marathon this fall
Long Term Goal: Place top 25 in the olympic trials in 2008
Julie Winter
Age: 49
Hometown: Bloomfield
Training fo: Half Marathon, Marathon
| PRs: | |
| 5000 m | 19:35 |
| 10,000 m | 40:33 |
| 25 km | 1:29:58 |
| marathon | 3:07:11 |
Short Term Goal: stay healthy and come close (within 5%) to PR's in the half and marathon
Long Term Goal: stay healthy and set at least one PR at age 50
Upcoming Races:
- Martian half (4/10/10)
- Bayshore Marathon (5/29/10)
Kathy Kyle
Age: 34
Hometown: Seattle, WA
High School: Forest Ridge Major:
College: Carnegie Mellon University
Major: Professional Writing, Visual Communications
| PRs: | |
| Half Marathon | 1:40:11 |
| 8k | 3:22:09 |
Short Term Goal: 2006 Detroit Freepress Marathon (Goal: 3:12), 2007 Boston
Long Term Goal: Break a 3:00 Marathon
Laura Smaczniak Smith
Age: 33
Hometown: Hamburg
Focus: 5k,10k
| PRs: | |
| 5k | 19:05 |
| 10k | 40:48 |
| Half Marathon | 1:32:38 |
Short Term Goal: Stay injury free to build a base of mileage for summer races.
Long term goal: Attempt to run another half marathon with my father, but beat him this time!
Rebecca Lovenheim
Age: 24
Hometown: Canton, MI
High School: Manchester Memorial High School (Manchester, NH)
College: Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
Major: Political Science, Interdisciplinary Studies
| PRs: | |
| 800m | 2:17.61 |
| 1000m | 2:56.99 |
| 1500m | 4:49.03 |
| Mile | 5:11.97 |
| 3k | 10:50 |
| 5k | 18:28 |
| Half | 1:21:22 |
| Marathon | 2:56:08 |
PRs: post-collegiate:Cleveland Marathon (2006): 3:06:58 (5th woman overall)Dexter-Ann Arbor Half-Marathon (2006): 1:30:12 (2nd in 20-24 age group)
High School: (accomplishments): co-captain cross-country and indoor/outdoor track 1995-1998, varsity letter winner for all seasons, all-city academic all seasons, all-state in cross-country and track 1995-1998
College: (accomplishments): ECAC 1000m indoor champion 2002 -- 2:56.99, member of NCAA DIII qualifying cross-country team in 2000 and 2001, all-NESCAC All-Academic team junior and senior year (2001-2002)
Short Term Goal: sub-3:00 at Detroit Marathon 2006
Long Term Goal: sub-2:50 at Boston Marathon 2007