Todd Wells

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Todd Wells was born December 25, 1975 in Kingston, N.Y. He fell in love with the bicycle at an early age starting with BMX from the age of five through sixteen. After graduating high school he picked up his first mountain bike and has been on a tear ever since. He found his way out to Durango, CO where he attended Fort Lewis College and began a pursuit of his career in cycling.

Wells won two Cross Country Mountain Bike Collegiate titles for Fort Lewis College and the inaugural Semi Pro NORBA National Series title in 1996 before taking a break from his studies to become a full time professional cyclist with the Specialized Mountain Dew team.

His initial professional career was short lived as he decided to hang up his wheels at the end of the 1998 season and finish his collegiate studies at the University of Arizona. In 2000 he graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.S. in Management Information Systems and immediately started working for I.B.M., a company he interned with during his time as a student.

Wells quickly realized that being a bike racer was better then having a “real” job and started training once again with his sights set on returning to the professional ranks. Some good results landed him a contract with the Mongoose Hyundai team and he was back on the circuit full time by the end of 2001.

By 2008 he was back where he started with the Specialized team and his results seem to get better with age. He has won nine National Championship titles across four disciplines. In 2011 he took on some endurance races and racked up wins in both the Leadville 100 and La Ruta de Los Conquistadors.

2012 might have been his best season yet with his third trip to the Olympic Games where he placed a career best 10th. He also managed to win his second PROXCT series title, second Pan American Championship title and stood on the podium at the Windham World Cup.

When Todd isn’t racing all over the world you can find him in one of three places; hanging out with his wife Meg and dog Winston, grinding it out on the golf course or hitting the dirt jump trails around Durango or his winter home of Tucson, AZ.

Achievements

2012 Marathon National Champion
2012, 2010 PROXCT National Champion
2012, 2010 Continental Champion
2012, 2010, 2001 Short Track National Champion
2012 Olympic Games 10th
2012 Windham World Cup 4th
2011 US Cyclocross National Champion
2011 La Ruta de los Conquistadores Champion
2011 Leadville Trail 100 Champion
2011 US Cross Coutry Mountain Bike National Champion
2011 Sea Otter Classic XC 1st Place
2011 World Championships 7th
2004, 2008 Olympic Games Team Member

Grandby

July 14, 2010

So I locked up the Number 1 plate this past weekend in Colorado Springs. After a flat in the TT, a OK XC I finally won the last day in the Super STXC. The race was just over an hour where it usually is only 20 minutes. I got away with 2 laps to go and gained some time back but not the 3 minutes I needed to jump up from 3rd in the G.C..

I spent the past two days in Vail hanging out at Meg's family's house. Yesterday I spent the day at the Specialized Launch for all there 2011 product in Keystone. The new stuff coming out is incredible and I might even ride the new S-Works 29er Epic this weekend. The trails over in Keystone are a blast too and I put my Stumpjumper through the paces on a few of the lift accessed trails. I needed to get some time in on it since I'll be using that bike in the Super D this weekend.

Meg, Winston and I had a great time in Vail too. I rode the bike path on Monday, it's one of my favorite bike paths anywhere and it runs right through the village. I also spent some time sitting in the river there while Winston and Ava played ball. Bob's place kept us fueled up and I hit some balls at the Eagle Vail golf course. Not a bad couple of days.

Today we drove over to Grandby/Winter Park for the National Championships this weekend. I was surprised by how many people are here already. The course is new this year for the Pro race and it's pretty good for the most part. It's a lot of new trail so it's pretty bumpy and I'll probably be riding an Epic of some sort, either 26 or 29.

They had a good 15 minute ish lap but I heard they wanted to make it longer for some reason, I have no idea why. 15 minutes is what a WC lap is and I think next weekend's race in Champery is right at 15 minutes. They added a really sketchy fire road descent when they changed the course since you just bomb down some loose rock road. I hope they change it back.

I'm going to boohoo about the numbers too. Somehow I had number 113. Now I work my ass off traveling all over the World trying to get World Ranking points not only for myself but for the USA. The least they could do is give us numbers based on our ranking. They talk about getting the number 1 plate in the PRO XCT and UCI race gives out numbers based on rankings, how hard is it to give us a little respect. Don't you think it would be funny to see Jonathan Page with number 238 at CX Nationals? It just doesn't make sense.

OK, I'm done complaining, other then that I think things are great over here. The weather is awesome right now, the new trails they cut for the course are good and Meg set us up with a great condo this year. We have killer internet, Comcast so I can waste the days watching the Tour and the British Open and we can walk to the center of town in about five minutes. My bikes are working awesome, the form seems to be good and the moral is high.

Tomorrow I have an easy spin on tap, maybe a run of the Super D course and if I'm really lucky a few holes at the Head Waters golf course. I don't want to waste too much energy but I read MJ use to play golf before his Championship games and it seemed to work pretty well for him. I'm also looking forward to checking out my new phone Rude is bringing up from Durango tonight.

I wonder what the Darts' been up to.....

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