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

World Cup #2, Dalby Forest

May 24, 2011

The World Cup picked up again this past weekend in the back woods of jolly old England. This is the second year the UCI have had a WC in the Dalby Forest of Northern York. The race was one month later this year then last and there was no ash cloud to interrupt the travel of riders coming to the event. The ash cloud is threatening again though so we’ll have to watch it and see.

The Dalby Forest is a beautiful place to visit with it’s lush hillsides, ancient little houses and picturesque town. It also has an awesome MTB course that is approximately six K long, has two main climbs, a few technical drops and even a BMX track. This course has the highest average speed for any World Cup we race all year which means you never get to let up, even for a second.

The start at Dalby is always nervous with a long road section there is plenty of bumping elbows since the front row doesn’t go flat out but is fanned out across the entire road. I was happy to make it into the single track in the top fifteen and not get balled up in any crashes. From there I settled in as much as possible. I spent the first half of the race yo-yoing on and off the lead chase group for third through eleventh. On the fifth lap I started to fade and cramp a bit but kept it together for the most part. I sprinted with Gujan for fifteenth but couldn’t come around him at the line and rolled in sixteenth.

I was hoping for another top ten and was very close but just a little bit off. I am now in 13th overall so I still have a good start
position for Offenburg, which is this weekend. The Specialized team won the team competition again thanks in large part to Jaroslav winning the race so we all got to go up on the podium for that award including the staff. Our staff works so hard it’s awesome to see them get a little recognition; with out them none of our results would be possible.

Thanks for your support….

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