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

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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