Todd Smith is an athlete, partner, entrepreneur, race director, bike-poet, and fitness explorer from Chicago, USA. Growing up knobby-kneed, skinny and always underestimated, the bicycle found him early and gave him a lifeline. This lifeline provided a continuous outlet to freedom, creativity and joy. His outlet became a passion. This led to him throwing a leg “over the top tube” of many mountain, track, triathlon, tandem, messenger, and stationary bikes. His passion became an obsession and the best kind of addiction: one that makes you better every day. Within this frame, Surreal Cycling was born from a community that gathered in a tiny dark room in the grit of Chicago. Todd crafted cycling as a surreal art that, looked from the outside, like cycling classes, backed by the soundtrack of the finest house music curated over 14 years of sessions. Sweating through thousands of hours on a stationary bike, Todd discovered that with the right Music, Magnitude, Mindset, and Mojo, the Journey became a certain kind of Magic… and results from these experiences were as transformative as any outdoor ride. Todd has competed in endurance events for over 25 years, attended hundreds of techno house music raves, and infamously won the NYC Triathlon on a borrowed bike given to him the night before on the streets of Manhattan. He is now leading Surreal Cycling out of the tiny dark studio and into the broader world to share the freedom and passion that he has discovered with as many as choose to join the movement to find transformation inside of their own Sur-Reality.