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

Mallorca

May 10, 2010

I toughed it out in Germany for exactly 4 days.

Kirchzarten is a really cool town located about 9Ks from Freiburg(where the Schumacher doping scandal took place) at the base of the mountains. The mountains are really cool and being so close to Switzerland, it looks a lot like it there.

For the 4 days I was there it was between 6-9 C with a huge cloud settled in about 300 feet above the house stuck on the mountains. It didn't rain everyday but if you went into the mountains the air was so thick it was like it was raining. Rob and I did a ride one day where we were up around 3,000 ft, it was raining, it was 2c and the wind was howling. I decided to go to Mallorca right then.

Meg flew in on Tuesday to Frankfurt, took the train to Freiburg and I went down and picked her up. It takes 2:30 hours to drive from Frankfurt with no traffic and the train took less then 2 hours with no transfers. I was also able to suck down a Chai tea from Starbucks before she got there since there's one in the train station.

It has been awesome having her here as the last time I saw her was before Pan Am Championships, about a month ago. We haven't got to spend too much time together though because I've been doing some big training up until today. Top that off with the fact she is becoming an insomniac this trip and our schedules are a bit off. Today though we're taking it chill and hopefully going to spend the day on the beach if the sun would stay out.

The U.S. development house in Germany is really cool. It's a huge house that has a bunch of small apartments and is a working farm. There are cows, chickens, mini horses, normal horses, sheep, cats and a new puppy. It's like being on the Simple Life. It's great getting to hang out with all the U-23s, Gully, Sandy, Shultz and the rest of the crew. I forgot my cable for my phone at home so I can't upload any pictures.

The crew in Germany make it cool but the scenery and weather in Mallorca are great too. Sandy set us up with Tolo who is like the Bob of Mallorca. He owns a restaurant on the beach and his girlfriend got us an apartment to stay in for the week. We hung out with Ken Whelpdale last night and his fiance too so we feel like locals here. The riding is incredible, I have never ridden anywhere like this. I would say it's even better then riding in the Alps.

Well Meg is done with her cappuccino and we need to get to the beach. Hopefully the ash cloud will be gone by the time we fly home on Thursday.

I wonder what's going on at the development house today.....

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