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Lets ride together..pause..NOT!!!

Troy Wells — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:32:56 +0000

So I’ve been logging in the hours this past week. It has been a little cold down here in Tucson this winter. On tuesday Howes and Much wanted to get in some climbing so we packed up a car and drove to kitt peak. Howes and I planned on doing it 3 times and then maybe heading part way home. I started out my base day and howes and much went up easy. The second time up I went all the way back to the highway flipped it and Howes ended up flipping it at the start of the actual climb. Eventually I Howes saw me and started to sit up and wait. But it was a cold day with a 30 mph headwind on the climb and maybe about 40 degrees. Needless to say Howes started to get cold and went hard again to warm up. I figured no problem we will just descend down together then ride up the 3rd time. As I was approaching the summit I started getting nailed with Sleet and quickly flipped it to get below the storm. As I started descending down the road was wet from the rain that had started to come down. With about 9 miles left to descend and visibility @ about 25 feet I was freezing and just thinking about getting down the mountain. At around miles 5 i saw Much who had driven up based on how the mountain had gotten covered in clouds within the span of 10 minutes. I told her to go up and get Howes who was still in the middle of the storm. Once I got back to the highway I just started to nail it towards Tucson which is about 40 miles away. Much found Howes and he sat in the car for a few minutes to warm up then started to head toward home. He had Much motor pace him for a while so he could catch me. The tailwind was so strong on that day I was pulling a little above 30 on the way home so needless to say we never saw each other the entire day.

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Tucson Training

Troy Wells — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:04:48 +0000

So I’ve made it out of vacation time and into base training. I put in a week in durango before i headed south to tucson. This year I’ve had to rush my base a little on contrast to years past. I’m doing a 3 week block then it is off to puerto rico for two uci races then back to durango for one last hell week. I’m really looking forward to doing the races in puerto rico since i’ve heard good things about them from my brother plus its puerto rico. I made it down to Tucson on saturday with Barthel. Barthel, Gilbe and Todd had a little golf vaca going on the last couple of days. I joined them for one day of hacking away with the clubs. Besides from that I’ve been settling in out @ the ranch here in tucson. I’m staying with Howes, Much, Walker, and the Slovak @ Curtis house a.k.a. missing saddle headquarters. I’ve been logging in the hours on the bike and resting my knee as much as I can. It is so cool riding in tucson this time of year you see all sorts of people you know out on the open roads. We are a little ways from the UofA which has taken away from the time i normally spend on university. My knee is a little jacked right now so I’ve been really good about stretching which is a first for me. Not to mention I’m doing the Dr. Frank exercises and icing my knee a lot.

Here is a photo of my new MTB bike which I got to rip around on monday. It rides really well and is weighting in right @ 21lbs.

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Long Time

Troy Wells — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:27:38 +0000

So it has been a long time since I have given my site any love. I got back
from Europe and was still motivated to ride my bike but knew it was
time to take a much needed break. It was a good time in Durango for
some down time with the annual snowdown celebration going on. I was
planning on doing the polar bear plunge @ carvers but it didn't
happen. I still had some jet lag going on. I always have a lot of
free time during my break and normally just sit around and do close to
nothing. This time I changed it up with some back country action and
shoveling roofs. I figured why not be productive so I did a
week of hard core shoveling. It was actually quite fun until you get
towards the end of the day and you can't move. As the sun was going
down each day though you knew it was time to go have a couple beers.

One of my last days on the roof my buddy Schmidty and I decided we
should check out tickets to Mexico to see if we could swing a trip
with all the extra cash we had made. Before we knew it we were on the
direct flight from Denver to puerto vallarta. We were able to spend a
couple days @ megs parents house then I was off to sayulita for the
last 3 days. I had the great idea of hiking to sayulita from San
pancho. It ended up turning into a solid 2 hours of bushwacking in
the jungle with 35 lbs backpack on. In sayulita we stayed @ a
hostel which was an expierence for me. Schmidty has had expierences
with hostels and said this was the worst one he has ever stayed in.
It was like staying in a jail cell so let's just say we didn't spend much
time in the hostel. I must say though spending a couple days in
sayulita has brough my love for San pancho to another level. We did
find a couple cool places in sayulita off the beaten path though and
took in some fun night life. Thursday morning we were back on the bus
headed for the puerto vallarta airport.

After returning to the states it was off to a cabin in rollinsville
north of boulder. Since the people we were meeting were running late
we got to kick it with Corey collier in boulder for a night. 1 am in
the morning we finally met up with our crew and headed to the cabin.
After two crazy days in the cabin we are finally headed back to d-town.

I will add some pics to this post if i can remember how Zach Mcd showed
me how to post them.  And i will catch you up on my last off week which has
 consisted of building up my new sweet Spooky bikes.  Team Clif Bar has
changed to the east coast frame builders bike for the 2010 season.  They are
sick bikes all the way around.

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Mallorca

Troy Wells — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:31:40 +0000

So Zach is awesome and figured out how to post pics on my blog so here is the first pic from Mallorca. Also a big thanks to Ken at 3F Sports for setting us up with a great place to stay and helping us find our way around the island. His site can be found here 3fsports.com
When I couldn’t upload pics i started taking some video here they are..

Some Cross practice

I’ve been loving the riding here and actually having the problem of riding too long. When it is 55 and sunny it is easy to do!! Today was a little rough with it raining all day. I flew here with close to nothing and had to go ballin on a euro today. Lucky for me it was the day after Three Kings day so everything was 50% off.

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Mallorca Spain..

Troy Wells — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:53:46 +0000

My phone has been cracking me on the updates. I have written a couple
and they haven’t posted. So here is a quick run down of the end of
camp. I had a really good day in loenhout ended up 30th. Baal I had
some issues and pulled the plug. Sint Nicolas I felt alright and was
able to manage 19th. So with that said @ this point my season
should be over right? Well I decide to stay in euroland and do the
next two world cups. Since the weather isn’t the best in dtown or
izegem I decided on Friday I should head south. Zac Mcdonald and I with
the help of our travel guides fox, els and Noel ended up Mallorca.
Nothing like booking a trip last minute. Thanks to ryanair we were
able to get cheap tickets. Ryanair is a crazy airline. You have to
pay for everything when you purchase your ticket. They say for every
extra kilo over 15 kilos it is 20 euros. Lucky for us our bikes didn’t
touch the scale. Also they are tight on the carry on bags or at least
that is what they lead you to believe. Mcdonald and I went with just
one backpack each but people had huge bags looked like they
were way over the 10 kilo limit. Next it was time to board. Ryanair
is like southwest with no assigned seats with premier
boarding for 10 euros. Zac and I didn’t go for that instead we just ran
all the way to the plane and passed just about everyone. Stupid
Americans!!! We ended up with an exit room right by the main cabin
door. Ballin with the leg room. Since ryanair flys out of some ghetto airport
instead of Brussels they only have two de-icers. After the door closed we sat @ the gate for 2 hrs. I didn’t
care I passed out but woke up to some guy chewing out the flight
attendent for not supplying meals. Finally we were off and we arrived
in Mallorca. After picking up the baggage it was off to our hotel.
Ken whelpdale of usacycling lives here and set us up with a nice
hotel in downtown palma Mallorca. Zac and I headed out checked out the
city got some food actually found the hotel which wasn’t the easiest
task.

Dinner in spain doesn’t get going until 9 so of course we were early
showing up @ 8:15. Then we went to check out a discoteca. We got
there around 1130 stupid Americans. It was basically just us and the
staff for a while. Then when we went to leave our jackets we had
safetly hidden behind a couch were gone. Mcdonald and I were saying
we felt like UNO and Dos two juniors from camp.

Sorry for no pictures my account seem to be messing with me and not letting me upload photos. I’ll try to get it figured out.

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