Troy Wells

Seattle, San Fran, Vegas, Madison

// September 28th, 2009 // Uncategorized

So it has been a long week to say the least.  It all started with Singers bachelor party Thursday night.  Go to his site noahsinger.com for photos and his account of night.

Then Saturday morning it was on to the plane heading to StarCross.  I would have to say StarCross is one of my favorite races all year.  It is under the lights, normally muddy, beer tent, it doesn’t get much better than that.  I had a good start to the year ending up 6th on the night.  The next day I wasn’t able to pull it together and pulled the plug midway through the race. 

On Monday I was back on the plane to Berkeley to kick it @ Clif Bar for the day before the road trip to Vegas with Dylan, Eric, and Matt.  Right when Dylan picked me up it was off to Capo to pick up the new team kits.  They look really amazing especially the white kits.  Their clothing is also the best cycling clothing I’ve ever had.  So if you have choice on which clothing you use I would highly suggest check out Capo.  They recently moved since the last time i stopped by.  Gary’s runs the show @ Capo and his new office is baller.  He has window and from what I gather from Dylan is if you have a window in your office that is big time.

 On the way I had a small burrito for lunch.  Eric wanted to see if I could really eat a burrito built for two.  I dialed it in about 15 minutes but the stomach was a little off for the rest of the drive. 

We pulled into Vegas @ around 6:30.  We had a mellow dinner and I hit the hay since VegasCross was the next day.  I wasn’t able to put together a good ride in Vegas.  I missed the selection in the beginning and was never able to get across.  It just wasn’t my night I guess you could say.  After the race Todd, Meg, Powers, Timmy J, Driscoll, Specialized crew, and I hit the town hard.  So many stories from that night but basically we got in @ 5:30 a.m.  That made for a rough day on Thursday for all of us.  Yesterday I spent a lot of time @ the show.  Clif Bar had a foosball tournament going on at the end of the day.  Todd and I got owned by team BA a.k.a snyder and sager.  Towle was on the mic, eric was on the guitar and Dylan was running the show on the table.  Definitely a cast of characters if you ask me.

 Eric is some sort of a rock star i guess..

My display @ the Clif booth..  A couple people like snyder are saying i eat more than that.  

Thursday night went out to dinner with a big crew from clif bar.  Got to catch up with towle which is always a good time.  That guy kills me.  

Friday morning it was off to madison for the first two rounds of the USGP.  The course was awesome.  It is really cool when you do a race one year and then you come back the next year and they have improved the course.  They basically left all the parts I liked from the year before and added some cool new stuff.  My weekend wasn’t my best.  I couldn’t seem to stay on my bike for the life of me.  I hit a tree on saturday broke my bike got pissed and rode maybe my strongest 30 minutes of my life and ended up 14th from the mid 30’s.  Sunday wasn’t my day either as i tossed myself on the pavement hard going on to the last lap.  

Now I’m currently in a coffee down my U-DUB wasting time since i don’t fly until 630 tonight.  Going to try to get on the 3 o’clock flight though.  Got my fingers crossed.  For more about this week check out cyclingdirt.com colt has been there every step of the way.  From the racing to the foosball.