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

XC Wisconsin

June 26, 2010

So of all the Specialized athletes Sam Hill is leading the charge with the most blogs on i-am-specialized.com . I am 18 posts behind him right now and I'm going to try and close the gap. All the posts that are on Toddwells.com are also on i-am-specialized.com and vice versa.

So since there is no way of me beating Sam Hill down a hill, I'm trying to catch up to him in cyberspace. Back to the race today in Wisconsin. For starters, it started late, 3:30pm. It's nice not to have to get up early but I would prefer a 1 or 2 start time. We finished at 5:30ish and didn't leave the awards until 8pm, which wouldn't be a big deal but the restaurants around here stop serving dinner at 9pm. We raced back to the hotel, cleaned up and made it to the Moose Lodge Super Club to meet the ShoAir crew by 8:45. It's always a race. It was pretty hot 85 degrees and quite humid 85 percent today. The rain from last night made the course perfect and the tight switch back climb wooded section was packed with spectators and had a Euro feel. We established a lead group of 4 riders, me, Schutlz, Plaxton and JHK halfway through the first lap. I tried to attack a bunch in the first 2/3s of the race but everyone was pretty evenly matched. Plaxton took a flyer at the start of the last lap. We closed it down in a few minutes and were a group of 4 again going over the top. Schutlz then hit it through the top feed-zone(8 minutes from the finish) and I decided to stay behind Plaxton for the descent since he is usually very quick downhill. We didn't catch Sam by the bottom and he had a few second lead starting the last 2 minute climb. I managed to get past Plaxton but never caught Sam. Then inside a minute to the finish I dropped my chain around the last rocky turn before the finish and Plaxton passed me back so I had to settle for 3rd. I was happy with the race and glad to see Sam Schultz get his first PRO XCT/NORBA/UCI/US Cup win. It was a fun race too battling back and forth. With no sustained climbs or straight sections it was really hard to break up the group and everyone seemed to have a section they were going fastest in.

Tomorrow is the STXC and another chance for a result. I was hoping to do the Super D too but our flight out is at 7pm so we'll have another race to get to the airport. Plus, I'm hoping to get some Chipolte before we fly out. We don't have one in Durango and it's my go to burrito spot on the road. The burritos are twice as big and half the price of similar burritos in D-town. There is a sweet wakeboard lake with zip line and jumps at the venue. I haven't made it there but Ty and Johnny hit it up today between working the feed-zones and drinking pink Mike's Hard Lemonade. My room at the Knight's Inn lights up like a sun room at 6am so I stuffed my bike box in the window so hopefully I won't wake up early tomorrow. I wonder if Winston is behaving himself at Doug's and if our cat Maddy is OK since she is now diabetic and requires insulin shots daily......

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