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

Rest Week

June 7, 2011

I have to give a big "Thank You" to Johnny Muller for updating the look of my site. I think it looks great

I've been on a nice rest week since I got back from Europe last week. The first few days were spent walking around in a haze of jet lag. Coming back to Durango from sea level my eyes and lips are always super dry because there is 0 humidity here. That seems to intensify the jet lag feeling.

Anyway, that only lasts a few days and the weather here has been awesome!! Upper 70s to mid 80s all week and plenty of sunshine. We have been getting a bit of smoke from the forest fire burning on the AZ/NM border but other then that it's been blue sky.

I have been playing lots of golf lately and the other day out at Dalton Ranch was awesome. 
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Yesterday Rude and I knocked out 24 holes, it was a marathon. I also started riding again yesterday, just easy though. I have another easy day and then it's back to some bigger volume.

I branched out with my dirt jumping as well, now I've been hitting the trails in Overend Mt Park, behind the recycling center. There are some giant jumps back there but I haven't stepped it up to those yet. It doesn't look like anyone has ridden back there in a long time but they did some serious work to build all the jumps, they're huge!

Meg, Winston and I went hiking the other day. We had hoped to hike up to Engineer but when we got to the parking lot it was still covered in snow and there was no trail beat in at all. We turned around and hiked up from the bottom instead(only 9,300) instead of 10,600 ft up top. I think it's gonna be a while before the high country trails are good this year. There are some sweet aspen forests up there.


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While I was in Germany racing the World Cup Ned was in Durango winning his 5th Iron Horse road race. The last time he won it was 19 years ago, that's a big gap! Here he is coming into the finish in Silverton last weekend. 
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I finally got an Iphone and it's awesome, the only problem is I deleted all my contacts while loading them on. The problem started when I loaded on all my contacts and realized they needed to be cleaned up. I cleaned them all up on my Gmail and reloaded them but then I had tons of duplicates. I then wiped them all out on my address book so it would wipe them out on my phone as well. That worked perfect but it also wiped them out on my Gmail so now I have a really cleaned up contact list.

We were out to dinner the other night and we found a Geoff Rogers look alike. 
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Finally, Winston likes it when I take time off because it usually means more time at the dog park or running or time at the river. He's doing good but he needs to loose the winter coat. 
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