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Tour de Todd
by Todd Wilson
Looking for the place to get the inside scoop on cycling in the Sunshine State? Welcome to the Tour de Todd Cycling Podcast, where we get connected to all the races, results, and rides; as well as exclusive training, coaching, and interviews with some of the top pros and amateurs in Florida. I'm your host, Todd Wilson, and I've been racing bikes since I was 14 years old, and have competed in some of the biggest criteriums in the country throughout my career. So join me on this ride, and let's discover some of the most iconic racers and landmark rides on the Florida circuit, get valuable guidance from the Coach's Corner, and we'll even mix in a bit of music to keep things pumping!
Episodes
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Matisse Julien, steady growth each season
Matisse Julien is originally from a town called Laval a city in Quebec, Canada. This season he's racing for the French team CIC U Nantes Atlantique. It's a continental team. So far he's raced the Grand Prix Cycliste de Marseille La Marseillaise, which is the traditional opener to the season in...
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Norman Alvis, a racer for life
Norman Alvis is a Sacramento, California native. He started out as an athlete running cross country. At the same time he rode a bike to and from school. After riding a friends race bike he was smitten. He say it was the adventure, the sensation of being on the bike and having something of his own...
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Willy Wauthle, history aficionado and motorcyclist in many of the biggest races in Europe
Let me say this first, I'm a history buff when it comes to cycling. I love learning about riders from the past, present, their stats, and who won what race when, where and how. Willy Wauthle from the Netherlands helps me fulfill my fascination. He is one of the most captivating individuals I've...
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Yoeri Havik, six day man
Yoeri Havik and Jan-Willem Van Schip won the Madison World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland this year in fine fashion. To watch the race you would have seen a master class in how to race a Madison from start to finish. This interview took place in the middle of the Copenhagen 3 Day. Havik is...
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Riley Sheehan, a champion in the making
Riley Sheehan is dope. This young man won Paris Tours 2023. I don't know if you're familiar with the race but it's 213.9 km long and starts in Chartres and ends in Tours. The 2023 version started with 157riders. Sheehan started the race as a stagiaire for Israel Premier Tech World Tour Team. He…
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Angelo Furlan, great Italian sprinter
Angelo Furlan is a sprinting legend. In the early 2000's until 2013 Furlan was racking up big wins in the European cycling world. It was a time where Mario Cipollini, Alessandro Petacchi to Robbie McEwen were winning races at will. Furlan beat all three in races. Injuries in BMX is what led…
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Serghei Tvetcov, living with Leukemia.
Serghei Tvetcov is living with Leukemia. He was diagnosed with cancer in September 2022. He was racing with his Wildlife Generation Pro Cycling Team in the Tour of Romania when he got the results. He says he knew something wasn't right. Tvetcov simply couldn't put out the numbers he was used to...
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Henri Uhlig, just starting his pro career.
Henri Uhlig recently signed his first pro contract with Alpecin Deceuninck. For the past two years he's been riding for their development team. His season just ended after racing the famed Paris-Tours elite race. So, this interview takes place while he's on vacation. Uhlig told me he's not happy...
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Simon Gerrans, one of Australia's greatest
It's been five years since Simon Gerrans retired from professional cycling. 2018 was his last season. Gerrans says it was a big transition leaving elite cycling. He says it forced him find a new purpose in his life, goals, and new ambitions. He says it wasn't easy so it forced him to stay busy.…
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Grant Koontz, on the path to greatness
Grant Koontz started racing a bike in his senior year of high school. He was diving and then jumped on a bike. The Houston, Texas native says his physical talents didn't mesh with football to basketball. By the time Koontz got to college he'd won a national time trial championship. He credits the...
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Alexi Ramirez, a lady on a mission
Alexi Ramirez is from Trinidad & Tobago. She is one of their top cyclist. Recently she raced in the Indy Crit weekend races. She finished 12th on Friday and 13th on Saturday. Ramirez has a bit of down time and then she heads to the Gateway Cup in St. Louis. This year has been a banner year for...
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Kaia Clemente, MTB Prodigy
Kaia Clemente is a household name in MTB racing here in the Sunshine State. She's always loved riding her bike with friends to the beach. But when her dad, Raphael Clemente, took her and a cousin mountain biking at 12 years old she was hooked. When she started getting serious about racing it…
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Rene Wenzel, former pro, coach, and directeur sportif
Rene Wenzel has a long history in the sport of cycling. He started out as a junior rider in Denmark. He was quite successful as a junior by winning Danish and Scandinavian Junior Road Championships. Once he moved up to the senior ranks he eventually moved to Belgium and France to race. By the end...
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Ashton Lambie, World pursuit champ, gravel racer, and sailor
Ashton Lambie is a busy man. He recently completed a 1,000 mile gravel race and is now preparing to be a cyclor on one of the worlds most prestigious Sailing teams. Lambie grew up in Nebraska. He began racing gravel and even ventured into road racing. He quickly realized road racing wasn't his...
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Raphael Clemente, a Florida legend
Raphael Clemente is a Florida legend. In high school he was a swimmer but got burned out. So, he bought a bike. His first race was an open race in either 88-89. He won. From then on Raphael progressed quickly through the ranks. Olympian Carl Sundquist would help him out with training. In 1991...
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Steve Brunner, Maryland Cycling Classic
Steve Brunner is the man behind the Maryland Cycling Classic. Brunner grew up in Kenosha, Wisconsin. This midwest guy has worked with some of the biggest bike races in the world. He's worked with the Tour de Georgia, Olympics, Amgen Tour of California to the Tour of China just to name a few....
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TW Carbon, carbon repairs and custom paint jobs
TW Carbon started in 2014. They do carbon repair and custom paint. Most of their business is in the bike industry but they will venture out and do work on a boat or car. The Kirkwood, Missouri company gets business from across the country. They do ultrasonic scans to check for damage. Owner Nick...
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Dave Chauner, part 2
In this episode Dave and I talk about his racing career, getting his start in race promoting and starting "Winning" magazine with Jack Simes. What I can say about Dave is that he's one hell of a story teller.
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Dave Chauner, racer and promoter
I'm gong to let you know up front that this interview with Dave Chauner is going to be in two parts. Dave is an icon in the sport of cycling. He not only participated in two Olympics, 68 and 72. But he also won a bronze medal in the Pan Am games in the team pursuit. Once he retired from racing in...
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Stage Race Roundtable, Redlands, Joe Martin, and Tour of Gila
The debate continues on whether road racing is dead in America. In this episode a roundtable discussion is had with Sean Wilson, the registrar with Redlands, Bruce Dunn, who puts on the Joe Martin stage race, and Michael Engleman with the Tour of Gila. Each one of them comes with their own…
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Junior Discussion with Sean Wilson
A few weeks ago I did a roundtable discussion about road racing, where it's at and how do we bring it back to its glory days here in America. Within that discussion junior racing was brought up by Jame Carney, John Eustice and Dieter Drake spoke about getting back grass roots efforts, local…
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Les Barczewski, champion sprinter
Les Barczewski was born and raised in West Allis, Wisconsin. He and his brother Leigh started out as speed skaters and quickly progressed through the ranks. By 1974 he was competing at the juniors worlds. In 1979 he was 3rd in sprints beating Jerry Ash 2-1. His brother Leigh won that year. In…
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Roundtable Discussion: Is road racing dead in America
In this episode of the Tour de Todd Cycling podcaster have our first annual roundtable discussion. The topic? What's happened to road racing in America, is it dead, how did it die and what needs to be done to bring it back. Joining me for this discussion is Charlie Issendorf, the former top…
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Yanto Barker, former pro and owner of Le Col premium cycling clothing
Yanto Barker began racing at 15. Some people would say he stared late. But by the time he was 18 he was a junior national champion. He got picked up by the GB national team which helped him transition into the U23 ranks seamlessly. He did the U23 worlds multiple times. He even moved to France to...
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Eddy Gragus, former U.S. Pro Champ
Eddy Gragus was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His family eventually moved to Tampa, Florida. He got into cycling in his senior year of high school. He went to Colorado to visit his brother and saw the Coors Classic. Then he went home and while riding his bike to school he was passed by a group of…
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John DeLong, a man with a big engine.
John DeLong fell in love with cycling at an early age. I think his love of the bike was nurtured through the simple fact his dad owned a bike shop. John met a kid who raced for the "Future Champion Cycling Club." He began heading up from Virginia to Pennsylvania to race and train with the club....
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John Slover, after all these years he still loves his bike.
John Slover started racing BMX in Southern California. He says he got a chance to ride and hang out with some top pros like Eric Rupe to Byron Friday. He raced BMX until he was 22 years old. Once stepped away from racing BMX he went to roller skating and eventually started racing inline skates....
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Peter Stetina, sometimes change is good
Peter Stetina raced 10 years at the highest level of road racing, the World Tour. This man had a great career racing a total 8 Grand Tours, Liege Bastogne Liege, to Strade Bianche to name a few races. In 2019 he decided it was time to do something else. He decided to race gravel races. He…
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Andreas Muller, full of talent and a masterful tactician
Andreas Muller was born and raised in Berlin, Germany. He started racing at 14 years old which he considered late. At the time the scene in Berlin was full of crits, road races and track races every weekend. He didn't have to travel far to get his fill of races. Andreas says he wasn't very good...
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Chris Lillywhite, U.K. all-arounder
Chris Lillywhite started racing when he was 14 years old. His first love was football. But he began to get into some trouble and his dad made the decision they were going to do something together so he bought them bikes. Shortly after getting a bike he began racing. In a two year span as a junior...
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Len PettyJohn, coach, teacher, and team director
Len PettyJohn got started with bike racing while in school in Wisconsin. His first race was in 1974 in Colorado. He would eventually take a break from racing and riding. But the draw of organizing a team pulled him right back in. In the beginning he set up teams like Aspen Skiwear/Dia Coupe,...
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Mark McKay, Northamptonshire's finest
Mark McKay got interested in racing bikes by watching the 1984 Olympics here in America. He vividly remembers Alexi Growl and Steve Bauer coming to the line. Mark says within two weeks he'd quit football, had his mom buy him a bike and did his first race, a time trial. The kid from Northampton…
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Scott Moninger, one of America's greatest climbers.
Scott Monger got involved in riding and racing through his dad. At the time Scott's family lived in Wichita, Kansas. BMX is where he got his start. Eventually he moved on to road racing when his BMX bike got stolen. He used the insurance money to buy a road bike. At 14 Scott started doing club...
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Dave Towle, Americas announcer.
Dave Towle grew up in Boulder, Colorado. It was a time when the Coors Classic was the biggest bike race outside of Europe. The race was a big influence on Dave. It's actually off of the reasons he ended up getting into the bike industry. By his account he was until his 20's a journey man...
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Ed Clancy, a winner in every sense of the word.
Ed Clancy is from a place called Barnsley, in the U.K. He's a guy who didn't come from a cycling family so his accomplishments are that more amazing. Ed says he was the bike as freedom. His very first race was a club 10 mile time trial. He didn't do so well but it didn't deter him from pursuing…
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Red Walters, working towards greatness.
Red Walters is a cool dude. I noticed him a few years back while reading about U.K. road racing. I've followed Red ever since. When I see Red Walters I see the faces of Maurice Burton, David Clarke to Russell Williams. All black cyclists from the U.K. and extremely talented. Walters earned a bike...
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Mathieu Hermans, one of the greats.
Mathieu Hermans is a Dutch legend. He started racing in 1971 when he was 8-years-old. He didn't win right away when he was young. But by the time he was 15 he was raising his hands while riding across the finish line quite often. As an amateur he raced a number of World Championships for…
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Yoeri Havik, Points race world Champion 2022-23
Yoeri Havik comes from a cycling family. His uncle is the great six day Danny Stam. He started racing when he was nine years old. he raced all over Holland. He says he didn't really start to win until he was around 14 years old. By the time he was 16 he was racing with the Dutch national track...
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Rico Rogers, a testament to tenacity
Rico Rogers is from New Zealand but currently lives in Australia. To be exact he raised in Palmerston North. Rico started out on mountain bikes and was quite successful at it. Eventually he took a break and started real life. By the time he was 28 the bike racing bug had bit him again. This time…
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Alex Stieda, Canadian legend.
Alex Stieda is a Canadian cycling legend. He was a hockey player first. To keep up his fitness in the off season he turned to riding a bike. He bought a $20 bike and started doing long rides. Simply by chance a neighbor who was involved in cycling suggested he race a local 10 mile time trial.…
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Dr. Jason Galeah, concussions from cycling is the topic
Dr. Jason Galeah is with a program called "Headset Sports." They work with elite athletes. He also has a private practice working with people dealing with anxiety, depression as well as working with athletes with focus and confidence issues. But for this interview we're discussing issues around...
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Thomas Craven, biker racer, chef to director sportif
Thomas Craven was raised in Winston Salem, North Carolina. At first he had not interest in racing bikes. He played soccer. Yet, there was a bike race held in front of his childhood home. That race would lead to his family hosting guys like Australian great Danny Clark. Once he watched Athens...
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Jason Allen, a kiwi legend.
Jason Allen is a kiwi legend. He was initially into soccer before he discovered the bike. He got on the bike to stay in shape for soccer. He quickly gravitated towards track cycling. He got good at racing a bike pretty quick. In 1998 he did the Junior worlds in Cuba. He says he began traveling…
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Freddie Rodriguez, part 3 and final interview.
This is the third and last episode with Freddie Rodriguez. We sit down and talk about the foundation he started after retiring, coaching, his clothing line, and life with his wife and three kids.
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Freddie Rodriguez, interview #2
In the 2nd part of my interview with Freddie Rodriguez we start where we left off at, coming off the Poggio in Milan San Remo in 2002. We dig into what he was thinking, feeling, and his positioning to set him up for the sprint. From there we talk about Ghent Wevelgem, his first ride in Paris...
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Freddie Rodriguez, brains over brawn.
Freddie Rodriguez followed in his dad's footsteps when it came to racing his bike. His dad was a racer in Colombia in 50's and 60's. His inspiration came during the 1984 Olympics when he saw Alexi Grewal win the road race and a gold medal. At 11-years-old he got a used bike from his dad. Freddie...
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Music I train with on my Wahoo Kickr
Today's episode is all about music. Since I'm having road bike issues I'm forced to get on my trainer in the garage and go at it. Music is a must so I've created a few playlists. I'll be sharing them as time goes on and hope to hear from you about what you like listening to. Maybe ya'll can...
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Star Track, a program introducing kids to track cycling.
The "Star Track Youth Program" is based around the Kissena Velodrome in Flushing, Queens. The program focuses on kids between the ages of 8-16 from under resourced communities. Star Track is a 100% free program. The kids set goals, participate in a weekly training schedule and become part of a...
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Tommy Nankervis, one hell of a bike racer
Tommy Nankervis comes from a cycling family. His dad raced and his grandfather raced. But, it was the great Sid Patterson who first got him on the track. Patterson was a world champion as an amateur and professional. He also won countless Australian national championship titles. And it was Tommy...
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Michael Vaarten, Mr. Versatile.
Michael Maarten started out knowing he always wanted to be a biker racer. His parents made him wait to race. Michael's parents wanted him to focus on school. He did get started at 17 years old and a few years later he won a silver medal in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal in the kilo. Here's what…
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Looking for the place to get the inside scoop on cycling in the Sunshine State? Welcome to the Tour de Todd Cycling Podcast, where we get connected to all the races, results, and rides; as well as exclusive training, coaching, and interviews with some of the top pros and amateurs in Florida. I'm your host, Todd Wilson, and I've been racing bikes since I was 14 years old, and have competed in some of the biggest criteriums in the country throughout my career. So join me on this ride, and let's discover some of the most iconic racers and landmark rides on the Florida circuit, get valuable guidance from the Coach's Corner, and we'll even mix in a bit of music to keep things pumping!
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