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New Site

2009-01-22T10:55:00.002-07:00

Okay so i have a new site on missing saddle. At the moment it is more basic then this site but over the next couple months it will become blinged out. It is www.troywells.missingsaddle.com

Singer and Lucy

2009-01-14T22:15:00.004-07:00

Well so i just got a big call about an half an hour ago.. Noah Singer and Shannon Watford (Lucy) are engaged. A couple years ago i actually joked that they got engaged and alot of people though i was serious. But this time it is official. They even have a website for it. I guess that is the big thing to do now once you are engaged. Also they said I'm in the wedding so i guess i need to save the date and miss a weekend of cross racing. Here is a photo of what I'm guessing singers proposal looked like. So congrats to LUCY AND SINGER. Schmidty and I will have to go out tomorrow and celebrate.

MEXICO

2009-01-11T12:15:00.002-07:00

Well so i've officially been on vaca for about a week and half now. It was a couple rough days to get here especially considering i was alittle under the weather. Once i got here Todd and Meg picked up Alison and I and we were off to san pancho. Nothing beats going right from the belgium to the beach in mexico. It has been amazing here mid 80's everyday and i've even got a tan now. I have had a great time over the last weekend hanging out with alison, todd, meg, and megs parents. I did finally walk from the town over with alison i had never done it before and ended up being a bit of an adventure. We ended up getting out of the jungle right as the sun was coming down. That could have sucked. Besides from that i don't have a camera with me so i don't have any pictures to put up. Alison left today so it is just Todd, Meg and I hanging out for the next couple days. I leave on wednesday so i've only got left a couple more days of warm weather before it is back to winter in colorado. Alison should e-mail me some photos some time this week so hopefully my next post will have some photos. Besides from that i don't know if i have written this on my site but i will be riding for Clif Bar on the mtb, road, and cross bike in 09. Really looking forward to the upcoming season i feel like im actually ready to start training again. I have to hold off for a couple more weeks though otherwise i will be flying in march and creeping the rest of the year..

Diegem

2008-12-29T09:40:00.002-07:00

Well i think i mite have just had my best race in euroland yet. I ended up 24th 2:55 down at diegem last night. It is always nice when the people you are riding with actually have fans all around the course. I was only 30 seconds off 16th place which was an awesome result for me. I was really racing not just riding around. The course was amazing as always in diegem and was under the lights which just made it a step up. I even got call a douche during the race. That always makes u feel good. With the late race i wasn't able to sleep which sucked. I was up until 3 a.m. just watching seinfled after seinfled and reading chapter upon chapter of my book. This morning i woke up went out for a spin got a massage from the fox and laid around all day. Tomorrow it is time to pin up the number again and do battle with the euros one more time. Hopefully i will have good legs and maybe have a great ride. We will see..

Quick Update

2008-12-26T13:03:00.003-07:00

Ended up 35th today in the world cup in zolder. I was stoked with the result i had a couple problems and didnt have amazing legs but all and all a good day. I dropped my chain with just about 4 laps to go and lost my group and had to give it everything i had to get back. After i got back i was in the hurt locker forshooow but was able to hold on until half a lap to go but than it was lights out. It would have been nice to win the group and end up 28th on the day but i will take 35th 3:20 down. The course was super fast with a couple technical sections. I almost TKO myself when i was trying to come back to the group going down the major descent on the course no brakes ended up in a full on drift at the bottom with my bars T up. It was one of those moments u see your life flash before your eyes and just think this is going to hurt. After the race you could tell 20000 spectators watched the race considering it took an hour to go 3K to the highway. Tomorrow is an off day with maybe a coffee shop ride with a opener or two to get the legs ready for diegem on sunday under the lights. I'm sure i will also find a couple things to make fun of shriver and the fox about also. Andrew is definitely the easiest person to pick on it is like shooting fish in the barrel with him. Hopefully i will get some good photos from mario of todays race that maybe i can post tomorrow.

Life at the house!!

Merry Christmas

2008-12-24T13:08:00.006-07:00

So it is christmas day and im currently in izegem getting ready for the world cup in zolder tomorrow. I can't wait to get the racing underway since i've been here for 6 days without much going on. The training feels good i think todd and i made the right call taking a little break after natz b/c im motivated to race and my legs arent tired anymore. So the number will be pinned on 4 more times in the next 7 days and than it is on the plane and back to the U.S. for a day than Alison and I meet up with Todd and Meg in mexico. It sure does look alot nicer there than here let me tell you. But i actually did see the sun today which was nice change. It had been alittle over a week up until today that is a long time when you are use to living in D-town. So on tuesday i went to brugge with matter and shriver. It was a cool afternoon trip and a good way to get out of the house. On wednesday we hit up the tour of flanders museum which was awesome to see but all i really wanted to do was take a nap. Museum seem to have that affect on me. Last night Els put together a great meal for christmas even and santa claus even showed up. I got a picture taken with him on the fox's camera maybe i can get it from him at some point. So here are some pics from the trip to brugge.

Belgium

2008-12-21T13:22:00.005-07:00

Well i made it over here with out any problems. It is nice to be back in belgium and see the fox ells noel and the rest of the staff. Also kicking it with everyone else who is over here for the camp. Rooming with shriver and brian matter. Shrivers didn't have anything show up so he was trying to rock the clif kit for the last couple of days. He thinks he is big time now. Besides from that just trying to get use to the euro life again, it has been a 2 years. I did a small race today more for an effort than anything else. I was looking forward to taking an entire weekend off from racing but it is way easier to do part of a race instead of trying to do a effort out on the roads by yourself. So i raced for about a half an hour and was definitely feeling the jet lag. I have a couple good stories about my flight over here so i'll leave you with one. So i ran to my connection in DC. Made it with close to no time to spare. Get in line and a guy rolls up behind me and starts telling me how he had a tight connection. "I only had 30 minutes between flights so i didnt have time to get food all i had time for was to go smoke a couple in the smoking lounge. You can't go on a seven hour flight with out smoking before it." All i was thinking to myself was please don't let this guy be anywhere near me on the plane. Lucky for me i think he ended up with the nice seat up against the bathrooms. I had a sweet seat with plenty of leg room not business class but probably the best economy plus seat you could have.

Albany Airport

2008-12-19T13:05:00.002-07:00

Currently I'm on my way over to euro land for the cross camp. My flight in Albany is delayed thanks to this awesome storm moving through. I hope i can make my connection in DC and arrive in euroland tomorrow morning instead of who knows when. If this flight take off at 330 like it is saying it will i should have no problem. I also got slammed at check in with having 2 bike boxes and a roller bag.

2008-12-16T16:07:00.002-07:00

My nationals is a race I will just put to the side. I ended up 12th and never made the front group. Just couldn't get it together out there. I was racing for 10th on the last lap but just couldn't pull it out. I have to congratulate treboohoo for making all of us look silly out there except for driscoll who just straight up killed it. He def had the ride of the day. After the race it was party on but i def went out alittle to big. I ended up breaking my cell phone and camera. I always seem to do that at natz. Now im back in NY resting up and getting ready for the euro trip. Taking alittle break hoping my form will come back around in time for zolder on the 26th. I will actually be over in belgium for a 6 days before my first race so jet lag shouldnt be a issue. I had brady take a couple pics during the race. And ive also got a couple pics from the post race party.

Pre Natz

2008-12-14T08:43:00.002-07:00

Well I'm sitting in the hotel room trying to get ready for the big race. This is the day that it seems everyone in the U.S. remembers for the next year. It is going to be a fast and hard race with alot of climbing and minimal recovery. I'm just hoping that i've got a great day in me and see what happens. The best place to watch the race is cxmag with live updates just about every min for the entire hour. Thats about it.. Sorry for the weak update.

Much Better Day

2008-12-09T17:38:00.002-07:00

Sunday went much better with me making the front group putting in a little attack and ending up 5th. I also laid it down out there which was not so nice. Todd ended up 2nd on the day with a much better ride also. We think we have it figured out how to make sure we are ready for sunday and don't have another day like this past saturday. It sucked having to deal with all the clean up after the race. Nothing like doing some laundry in the shower after your race. Sunday night ended up being a fun night. Alison came down and watched the race and hung out. We had a large crew including Mcduff, Jpows, Timmy J, Treefarm, Kira, Salam, Simon, The Jacques-Maynes, and Meredith. We went to Treefarms favorite place in portland Dante's. It is crazy their you see some stuff you definitely don't see everyday thats all im going to say. It was alot of fun for everyone including powers even though at first he wasn't really feeling it.

Todd and I flew out around 11 on monday got back to dtown by 5. It was nice here today with the temp only getting up to maybe 45 but the sun was out which always means alot here in colorado. I'm currently hoping for the weather to turn for natz in kansas. The forecast has been changing almost everyday. If it could just rain or snow sunday that would be perfect for me i think.

Bad Day

2008-12-07T12:37:00.002-07:00

Portland is normally a good race for me but yesterday just didn't seem to be my day. I just couldn't get going. I was in suffering the entire race and going no where. I don't even think i was in the top 20. Every part of my body was hurting but i hope i can turn it around today and put in a solid ride heading into nationals. Summerhill had a solid ride yesterday with his best USGP finish coming 7th. Besides from that it is still not raining here which is amazing. Normally it rains from the time i get off the plane until i get back on in portland.

DIA

2008-12-05T10:58:00.002-07:00

Well after a couple of chill days in Dtown I'm back in my second home during the fall the DIA airport on the way to Portland for the finial round of the USGP. It actually looks like it just mite be dry for once in portland that will be a first. The 10 day forecast is showing snow for Kansas City on saturday and rain on sunday which should be good for me. But you never know it is 10 days out normally they cant get it right within 3 days so you never know. The weather has been really nice in dtown for the beginning of December. I haven't even had to break out the face mask which is always good. Got in a couple days of good training and alot of down time including a Elka massage. My bikes have to be completely rebuilt before tomorrow thanks to jingle cross. Thanks alot to sram for hooking me up with everything to keep the bikes running during this long season. After Natz i will head over to europe for the two week x-mas camp which is always painful but u do gain alot of experience racing with the big guns.

Jingle Cross Day 2

2008-11-30T16:37:00.002-07:00

Today didn't exactly go as planned. I had some major issues to say the least. I broke a couple things throughout the race and ended up 4th. Mcduff took home the W which is always a good thing. Also Snyder took home a W in mass today and worked over Al D who has been getting the better of him for most of the cross season. I hope i got all of my bad luck out of the way for the rest of the season but you never now. I have to fly stand by tomorrow because i booked the cheap flight back to dtown which doesn't leave iowa until 6:45 @ night so i will go to the airport with Mcduff and hope to get on the 6 AM flight if i don't it could be a long travel day. Tonight Todd and I are off to the Jingle Cross post party which should be a good time.

Got a W

2008-11-29T21:09:00.003-07:00

Today i got my 1st UCI win of my career. Todd and I got off the front after a crash two mins in gave us a small gap and we just pinned it and were able to sprint it out for the win. Jingle Cross is a really cool race and everyone is into the cross here in iowa. I didn't celebrate my W but damio is making a good go of it for me.

Here is the podium pic.

Jingle Cross

2008-11-29T10:07:00.003-07:00

Todd and I made it to jingle cross in iowa yesterday after a bit of an adventure. We left for the airport around 5a.m. We boarded our 6a.m. flight to denver and before we knew it we were on a tour of colorado by air. Denver was fogged in so we got rerouted to grand junction refuled and back off to denver. We made our 10 min connection in denver and we made it to iowa on time. Once we landed we head to the course and damio picked up the bus on the way. The course is one of the cooler courses we race on all year. It is technical with a difficult climb.

Well i got my new computer so i've got a couple of pics from the last two weeks.

JimmyG out for a ride before the race in southampton

CareBear

Guptill kicking it with his teammates before his first cross race in mercer..

Video

2008-11-26T13:37:00.001-07:00

D-town

2008-11-25T19:32:00.002-07:00

Well we made it back to D-town after a week and half on the east coast. Sunday in southampton i did some hopefully just minor damage to my knee. I dressed a little over kill after freezing on saturday. I wore my booties and ended up hurting my knee over the barriers midway through the race. Dr. Frank did some work on it today and i think i won't end up missing any training so it is all good.

We made it back to durango monday morning to 50 degrees and sun. So much better than 30's with the wind we experience in southampton. On saturday my feet got so cold during the race the only way they got the feeling back in them was megs uggs. I actually went out and bought a pair today. Todd is making fun of me about them of course but i think i will get the last laugh in portland and kansas city. I also think they will keep me warm in europe. The uggs pack well in the bag which is a plus as well since i travel so light... pause.. NOT

This weekend we are off to jingle cross in iowa. Looking forward to this event Todd went last year and talked about for weeks.

Southampton

2008-11-22T19:54:00.003-07:00

So my computer is basically broke. I order a new one so i should be back to updating this coming week at some point. Today went decent i ended up 5th todd ended up 3rd. Hopefully tomorrow we can both step it up a bit. I have a update i wrote for clif bar about mercer you can check it out.

Delayed

2008-11-13T20:02:00.003-07:00

We are delayed in Denver on our way to Newark. If all goes to plan right now we should land in newark at 230 which means i should get to the hotel around 4 a.m. great success. I have had a nice week and half without racing and i feel much better after getting on RX so im ready to get on with the second half of the season. Im gald it is going to rain this weekend and I get to see what i can do in the mud this year. As of right now it looks like im going to return to euroland for the x-mas camp. I don't think i will do worlds but i at least want to get back over there and see what i can do. Basically get my head kicked in for two weeks.

Here are some pics from the cliff durango. It is a climb we do right out of town.

Weekend Off

2008-11-10T22:45:00.004-07:00

So for my weekend off i figured i should give back so i helped two of my friends throw a cocktail party. This involved alot more work than i was looking for but it ended up being a blast and a rager... I didn't really take enough pics so here is what ive got it is more the setup.. Check my bros site and singers for more photos..

This was my view most of the night from behind the bar.. (sorry camera phone)

We even had a h'orderves table

Finial setup of the bar.. Made bing thanks to mapel

The sign in before

The sign in after (sorry camera phone)

Dance Floor

Winston Wells has a facebook

2008-11-08T09:59:00.001-07:00

Alot of nothing

2008-11-07T21:12:00.005-07:00

Well for my one weekend off before natz i've ended up being a little under the weather. I haven't felt myself since last week but of course i put off going to the doctor until today. I guess i have something going on b/c now im on antibiotics for 10 days. Besides from that i've been just riding for 2 hours a day and resting up. I hit the road with chops today and he didn't break his shit or crash successful ride for chops.

I've been laying around with win alot this week...

Dekrey was training for the cocktail party on the drive up to boulder last week.

Back in D-town

2008-11-04T19:17:00.002-07:00

Well the second day in boulder didn't go much better for me. I couldn't seem to stay on my bike. I laid it down twice once on the 1st lap and once midway through the race. I was going backwards midway through the race but i got myself back together for the finial 3 laps and was able to finish up 7th. I was happy at the end of the race since it was a C1 that i was able to pick up some points. Sunday night we all went out in boulder we had quite a large crew. I went home early since i have been feeling alittle under the weather. My bro will have up some sweet pics from the night out.

I'm taking a little break right now trying to get geared up for the second half of the season. I played a round of golf with mcduff today. Besides from that i was just basically a bum. Hopefully tomorrow i will feel 100% so i can have a more productive day. The weather is also taking a turn for the worse in D-town which doesn't help my energy level. Well i hope it turns around since i get to spend another week in d-town before i head back east. Here is a cool pic from boulder.

Boulder

2008-11-02T11:29:00.003-07:00

Well my race yesterday in boulder didn't go quite as planned. I had a good start sitting 5th wheel heading into the sand pits. Unfortunately for me anthony flipped over his bars and i ended up laying it down as well. Once i got back up and got going again i was in the mid 20's.. Worked my way back up to the chase group. Wicks and I trader pulls trying to close the gap which wasn't happening. I ended up blowing up and helping brady to get his best uci race result of 8th. I came across in 9th. My bro took his 1st W of the 08 cross season. He was killing it from what i heard. Besides from that staying with daimo in the boulder bubble. Hopefully 2day will go better for me. Here are some photos from last sunday night when we went out with the sram crew to lucky strikes.