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 #1 Dalby Forest UK

April 27, 2010

I am really excited to be contesting the World Cup for 2010. The first race of the season was this past weekend at the Dalby Forest in the U.K. and it was almost as hard getting there as it was to race. The volcano in Iceland made a long trip even longer but I’ll just give you a brief description.

We flew from Sea Otter to Frankfurt with out incident and when we arrived the airport was like a ghost town. All the flights out were canceled so we sat around for five hours trying to make a plan. We decided to rent a car and were out on the road just in time for Frankfurt rush hour traffic at 5 pm. We (Burry, Susi, Lene, Claire and I) made it to the ferry in Calias, France at 12pm in our very tight five seater Picasso Citron with an electronic hand brake that didn’t

want to come off. It was a one-hour ride across to the U.K. and then another eight-hour drive from there to Dalby Forest. Claire drove the entire fifteen hours after flying all the way from San Francisco. Amazing.

The course in the U.K. was an awesome six K loop with lots of rock drops, fast single track, short climbs, decision maker lines and even a BMX track. I was struggling with my knee early in the week from my crash at Pan Ams and the long travel. Thursday I was unsure if I could

even race since the course was pretty rough and my knee was hurting on the track. Great treatment by Claire, Peter and local physical therapist, Ed got me going in time for race day.

The weather was killer all week and then on race day the clouds rolled in and it even rained over night. The course was completely dry for the start of our race and I rolled to the line with my S-Works 29er and new Renegade tires. I managed to avoid the carnage on the start loop but didn’t have my best start and spent most of my day slowly working my way up through the field. I did make a quick stop in the tech-zone to tighten a loose saddle but other then that I didn’t have any problems and my knee really didn’t bother me. I spent the later half of the race with Roel Paulissen and finally crossed the line in 19th position, 3:49 down. Not my best W.C. but not my worst either. My teammate Burry had a great race and came in third after pushing the pace all day.

To give you an idea of how deep the fields are getting that’s five to ten riders finishing each minute. Most national mountain bike races one rider comes in every minute or two. These races are just awesome! We arrived in Houffalize yesterday and even after taking a two and

half hour detour it felt like a breeze after last weeks travel. The weather is supposed to be good all week here and it’s a new shorter course this year so we’ll ride through the historic town center even more.

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