With over 45 years of combined coaching and training experience, our team of coaches is devoted and ready to help you hit higher levels of fitness and build the confidence needed to conquer your goals.
Meet Our Coaching Team
Kent Woermann is the owner/operator of Move Up Endurance Coaching. He is currently a certified personal trainer through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, a Precision Nutrition Certified Coach, and holds a category 1 license in road, mountain bike, and cyclocross disciplines.
Kent got his start in cycling by riding on the weekends with his dad when there wasn’t a baseball, soccer, or basketball game to attend. At 10 years old he completed his first century at the MS150 charity ride (it took all day!) and then continued to do that event each year thereafter. After high school, Kent discovered competitive cycling and never looked back. It was the hardest sport he had ever competed in, and the combination of tactics and intensity in road racing had him hooked. After a few years, Kent started to compete in the off-road disciplines as well, quickly discovering that playing in the dirt was fun and the perfect excuse to purchase more bikes! He enjoys the combination of power and skill it requires to navigate an off-road course and aims to keep improving his off-road skills over the years.
Overall, Kent is a guy that loves everything about cycling. Intervals, criteriums, coffee shop cruises, trail epics, and of course geeking out on all the data and high tech equipment. Give him a call to chat bikes and see if he’s the right coach to help you Move Up to the next level!
Jason started his path in endurance sport as a runner in high school and a brief stint in college before joining the army. In the military, he served 2 tours overseas in Iraq, completing his term of service after 13 years of active duty. During this time Jason went to flight school and served 9 of those years as a pilot – skills he still uses to this day as a med-evac pilot.
While in the military Jason began adventure racing, a sport that requires a mix of endurance, navigational prowess, and serious determination. Eventually, Jason caught the bug for gravel racing in 2016 and it’s been all bikes ever since. As a long-time client of Coach Kent, Jason has moved through the ranks to become one of the region’s most competitive gravel racers and is currently moving through the road and cyclocross categories as well.
Jason brings a wealth of training and racing experience as well as life experience to his coaching philosophy. As a husband and father of three, he knows the ins and outs of managing personal goals with family and career.
Garrick Valverde is a category one racer living in Lawrence, Kansas. Garrick has been racing for over a decade, beginning at just eleven years old. He has a strong sense of the challenges facing junior riders. He himself competed in over a dozen junior national events, surfing both the highs and lows of the sport. Garrick also understands the tribulations of “starting over”. After taking a 4-year hiatus from racing, he returned to cycling in 2013 and went from a category three to category one in just over a season. He has since enjoyed striving to improve each year as both a racer and a student of the sport.
Garrick enjoys picking apart the intricacies of racing and training through writing. Here is a blog he wrote on his stage win at the Joe Martin Stage Race, and here is one written on the very reason we ride bikes. As your coach, Garrick will be committed to making your cycling goals his coaching goals. Feel free to contact him with any questions!
Adrienne Wayman has coached triathlon since 2014, bringing beginners who started at the short-course distance up to full-Ironman finishers. With a Master of Science in Exercise Science, American College of Sports Medicine Personal Training Certification, USAT Coaching Certification, IRONMAN Certified Coach Certification, Adrienne applies evidence-based science to her athletes’ training plans to attain their goals safely and effectively.
Adrienne grew up in West Virginia, where there was always an adventure, and cycling was a part of that endless fun. Adventure and sports have always been a part of her life, and she always strives to become the best through intelligent strategy, hard work, and dedication. Years after graduation, losing sight of goals and weighing 315lbs, Adrienne found her drive again and signed up for a local triathlon after watching the televised Ironman Championship in 2010. She has challenged herself since with many Sprint and Olympic distance triathlons, multiple Ironman 70.3s, and an Ironman 140.6. She also advocates for others to get out of their comfort zone and challenge themselves in triathlons and cycling. After 8 years of triathlon, Adrienne joined the gravel cycling community in 2019 to utilize it as cross-training for triathlon. She had not cycled on gravel since she was a kid on a new bike but managed to place 3rd overall female and 7th overall. She has since completed multiple premier gravel races. Side-by-side, gravel cycling is as much a passion as a triathlon for her.
Train hard, race easy! Adrienne is ready to help you meet and exceed your goals, pushing beyond what you thought was possible!
Michael’s journey into cycling started during his college days at Kansas State University. In 2012, he took on his first Dirty Kanza on a mountain bike with hardly any training—a true all-day adventure! From there, he got hooked on the sport, diving into road racing and earning his Category 1 upgrade by the end of 2014. Michael even co-founded the Olathe Subaru Cycling team, competing in national-level events like Joe Martin, where he snagged a stage win, along with several amateur and collegiate national championships.
With over 300 road races and countless gravel and cyclocross events under his belt, Michael’s experience speaks for itself. This year, he hit a major milestone by finishing the Unbound 200 in just 11 hours, placing 29th overall out of 904 racers—a huge leap from his first Unbound! Now, he’s gearing up for his next big challenge: the Berryman Epic, a grueling 50+ mile endurance MTB event.
But Michael’s skills don’t stop at racing. He holds a doctorate in chiropractic medicine and is the clinic manager and practitioner at F.I.T. Muscle & Joint Clinic in Overland Park. His deep understanding of how the body responds to training, combined with his extensive racing experience, makes him a unique coach who truly gets what athletes need.
When he’s not riding bikes or helping people get out of pain, Michael loves spending time with his wife, Sarah, their daughter Adelaide, and their two dogs, Kips and Nala. We’re proud to have him on the Move Up team, and we know his passion and knowledge will inspire our athletes to reach new heights!