Brian Clarke
Marathon and Triathlon Training Program Director & Bike and Run Coordinator for Triathlon program.
Author of four books on training. Fitness consultant and president of BC Endurance Trainings. Top age-group runner since 1961.
Mark Ida
Group Leader—Marathon Training
Describing himself as unemployed, uneducated and unmarried (after retiring at age forty). Mark is one of the few athletes who have completed the TRI, Trail, Speed and Marathon trainings.
Anders Jonsson
Swim Program Coordinator
Regional Marketing Coordinator at Hilton Hawaii. Fifteen years in competitive swimming, including four years at UH. Swam on the Swedish national relay team (100 freestyle). Eleven years coaching experience; third in this program. Enthusiasm and Congeniality.
Jaime Ubongen
Assistant Coach—Bike and Group Leader—Marathon Training
Owner of Hawaii Vending Company, LLC. Jaime joined the trainings to develop a healthy lifestyle and to meet new friends. He’s a bike coach in the tri training and a group leader in the marathon training.
Tai McClellan
Group Leader—Marathon Training
Graduate assistant at UH working on a masters thesis. A self-described soils science nerd, Tai has proven herself to be leader in the marathon, trail, and speed trainings.
Sonya Weiser
Assistant Coach—Swim and Bike
Recent UH graduate with a B.A. in Psychology; practicing massage therapist with private cliental. Past participant in this training; third year of coaching. Graduate of the City DOT’s Bike Akamai Program for bike coaches. Enthusiasm and Support.
Bob Russio
Group Leader—Marathon Training
Manages Information Security for HMSA. A walker leader in the marathon training for the past eight years, Bob has walked more than twenty marathons and continues to whittle his finish time into the low six-hour range. Bob has completed the Volcano Wilderness Marathon three times. He has walked marathons in Nevada, California and Hawaii.
Annie Marshall
Group Leader—Trail Training
Biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Annie started training for marathons in 1997 and has been a group leader in the trail trainings since 2003. She has run six marathons, including Boston in 2000. Her PR was in the 1999 Maui Marathon where she qualified for Boston. She was second in her age group in the 1998 Volcano Marathon. Annie loves running trails
Tom Mark
Group Leader—Marathon Training
Certified Financial Planner. Tom says the AARP Triathlon Training he did under Brian’s aegis several years ago changed his life and has led him on a journey in fitness training and racing.
Alvis Shiu
Group Leader—Marathon Training
An Account Manager for Horizon Lines (providing domestic container transportation), Alvis is the longest standing group leader in the marathon training, since 1990. He has run dozens of marathons and is one of Brian's closest advisors. A native of Tahiti, Alvis divides his exercise time between running and officiating soccer.
Frank Smith
Assistant Coach—Bike
Owner of Island Triathlon and Bike, Inc. USCF bike racer and official since 1979. Twenty-two Tinman finishes (numerous age-group finishes); Effective Cycling instructor. Twenty-two years coaching in this program. Frank is Reliable, Caring, and Committed.
Ben Schorr
Group Leader—Marathon Training
Chief Technologist for Roland, Schorr $ Tower. Ben has been a group leader since 2003. He has completed ten triathlons, including three Tinmans, two Honolulu Marathons, and close to fifty other races, "with a closet full of t-shirts to prove it." Ben has a great sense of humor, and a coterie of adoring groupies to prove it.
Jana Pittichova
Assistant Coach—Bike
Works for University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy as a Comet Nuclei Postdoctoral Specialist. From Slovakia, Jana was on the Czechoslovakian national swim team in high-school. She qualified for the Kona World Championship Ironman at Honu, and finished in 12:16:05 in Oct 2005.
Cathi Rice
Group Leader—Marathon Training
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist at Tripler Army Medical Center, working in the Labor and Delivery Unit. Cathi has been a group leader on and off for 13 years. She has completed seven Honolulu Marathons, including one while she was six months pregnant. She has completed several Tinman triathlons and has earned the Expert Field Medical Badgea coveted honor in the Army.
Trish Havey
Assistant Coach—Swim, and Group Leader—Marathon Training
Works at a financial planning firm. Swimmer since age 8 through college; ran cross country in college. Member of the Hawaii Master's swim team. Caring and Enthusiastic.
Jill Byus
Group Leader—Marathon Training
Development Manager at Historic Hawai‘i. Jill is a group leader because she loves to facilitate the growth of a group of strangers into a family of athletes who support one another to run faster and further that they thought they could.
Candace Strong
Assistant Coach—Bike
Candace is retired from 30 years of farming on Kauai. Her favorite racing distance is the Half-Ironman (she’s done Honu twice). She placed 3rd in her age group in the 2006 Tinman Triathon, and she enjoys coaching beginner bikers in the tri training.