Todd Wells, mountain bike and cyclocross icon

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Todd Wells is one of the most decorated mountain bikers in U.S. history. Across his more than 25 year career, he's won three Cyclocross National Championships, three consecutive Mountain Bike National Championships, and represented the USA at three Olympic games. In addition to UCI racing, he's won multiple stage races, including La Ruta de los Conquistadores, Breck Epic, and the Leadville 100 three times. Although he retired in 2017, he continues to race occasionally, and has won the Telluri...

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0:00.0	I wasn't ready for that phone call.
0:02.0	And I was definitely disappointed, angry, mad.
0:08.0	I felt like I had had a pretty good season.
0:11.0	I had won a bunch of races with the team.
0:13.0	I didn't have the best season the year that I got dropped,
0:15.0	but I had a good season.
0:18.0	And so I was like, well, screw this, I'm going to find another team and win some more races.
0:23.6	It's showtime, everybody! Showtime!
0:26.6	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
0:30.6	This is the world as it exists today.
0:35.6	Life moves pretty fast.
0:39.3	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:41.3	You could miss it.
0:45.3	Listen, we talk about practice.
0:48.3	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:49.3	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:51.3	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
0:56.1	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:00.9	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:05.5	Howdy, welcome back to the show.
1:07.9	Welcome to a new year.
1:09.5	Happy 2020, everybody.
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