Todd Wells

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I started racing mountain bikes in the fall of 1994. I won the collegiate National Championships in 1995 and 1996 for Fort Lewis College. In 1996 I also started racing with the Specialized Mountain Dew team and won the inaugural Semi Pro Norba National Series Title. In 1997 I turned Pro and raced the NORBA series, U-23 World Championships, and domestic World Cups until 98. I took a few years off cycling, finished college in Arizona and got a “real” job with IBM. I quickly realized racing bikes was more fun then working and started training again. I started racing again in the middle 2000 and joined the Mongoose Hyundai team at the end of year to race World Cups, NORBAs and cyclocross. In 2003 I switched to the GT team and have ridden for them until switching back to Specialized this year. Over the years I have won two cyclocross national titles, one mountain bike short track national title and been a member of two Olympic teams. I have won NORBAs, numerous UCI cyclocross races and stood on my first World Cup podium this year. I am looking forward to adding to my list of achievements over the next three years with the Specialized Factory Team.

Achievements

2011 US Cyclocross National Champion
2011 La Ruta de los Conquistadores 1st Place
2011 Leadville Trail 100 1st Place
2011 US Cross Coutry Mountain Bike National Champion
2011 Sea Otter Classic XC 1st Place

Subaru Cup PRO XCT

June 28, 2010

The PRO XCT returned to action this weekend at Mt. Morris ski area in Wisconsin. The last time Wisconsin made an appearance on the National calendar was in the beginning of 2000 when we visited Alpine Valley that was an old trash dump turned ski area. The venue this weekend wasmuch nicer and the racing was great.

Mt Morris is located about ninety miles northeast of Madison. The mountain isn’t much but the trails and course rock. It was made up of ninety percent tight, tacky single-track trails with short switch back climbs and tight descents. It rained a bit the night before the race,

which made the traction awesome.

The XC race had a great turn out and the race was on right from the gun. We quickly formed a lead group of four containing, myself, Sam Schultz, Plaxton and JHK. I tried quite a few attacks but with such short climbs it was hard to break up the group. The last time through the top feedzone Schultz attacked and got a few seconds before the descent. I was on Plaxton’s wheel and thought for sure he would close the gap before the bottom of the descent but Shultz still had a few seconds at the bottom before the last climb. I made it around Plaxton but couldn’t bridge up to Schultz. Then just about insight of the finish I bobbled in a rocky corner and knocked my chain off. Plaxton got back around me and I settled for third.

The STXC was one of the fastest I’ve done in a long time. It went right through the venue and had s power sapping grass ski slope climb that felt like I was riding through glue. The lead changed just about every lap but with three to go Adam Craig attacked and we wouldn’t see

him again. I tried to chase but wound up hitting the wall. I dropped pretty far back but made it back up to fifth for the finish.

The fans in Wisconsin were awesome and one of the forested climbs was packed with people and felt a bit like a Euro World Cup. With my third place finish I took back the lead in the PRO XCT series and put a little buffer between Kabush and myself. The final race of the series

is in two weeks in Colorado Springs.

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