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im so over winter, just got another 28 inches of snow, so over this, had to take the subway and then a bus to get to work, very lame, hopefully i can ride tomorrow. but we're also supposed to get another couple inches of snow tuesday into wednesday on top of this snow!
spring cant come soon enough, so i can get back into serious training mode!
being snowed in this weekend at the house wasnt terrible though. we made a wall of beer cans to put in front of savoias door while he was at the stupor bowl in MPLS so that is pretty epic, played a lot of rockband, ate a lot of pizza and drank a lot of beer and good times were had.
heres a picture of me with my shotgun courtesy of eileen:
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[14 Dec 2009|03:32pm] |
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so cross season is over, but i wish it went all year! all in all did 9 races, next season im definitly doing more and will be in better shape than i was this year. last race of the season i went up to providenc, RI to race and had a blast there.
next up is training on the road with some friends for the first road racing season im eve gonna do, maybe a little track thrown in there as well.
went to longwood gardens with eileen to see their light/flower show thing and it was awesome, stopped at an arcade and had our pictures taken in a photobooth again and without even trying made the same faces in the same order in the picture we took down the shore 6 months ago, we're still retarded for eachother haha:
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| USGP mercer cup cyclocross |
[16 Nov 2009|10:45am] |
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sunday was fucking muddy but fun, minus getting up at 5am and having to rent a car but it was worth it. got there and got my number and fancy transponder thing, did a practice lap and man was the course muddy, it was hard just pedaling on flat ground! but i finished, got 79th out of 109 people that registered but i think only around 81 finished haha so thats pretty sweet, was a lot of fun! eileen came with and took pictures so heres a bunch:
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[09 Nov 2009|10:47am] |
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also posted to www.phillyfixed.com: race report from spring mountain: showed up around 9 and got my number and stretched?prerode the course, ran into max knee and ryan d. was a really fun course minus the muddy section that got pretty hard to ride if you didnt take a pretty specific line but was fun. i got 53 out of about 75ish so i guess my training and eating better is helping with something. had a good amount of obstacles: sand pit, muddy creek bed hop over then barriers then another part of the creek bed to hop over. was doing ok till the 5th of 6 laps when i tryed to take a different line through the mud and went down but gave me a few seconds to clear the mud/grass build up slowing me down on my fork and seat stays, last lap followed the normal line and was fine again haha. almost didnt get lapped but i did, but i ended up lapping some bigger dude so that was a new experience for me. i also met franko's parents who were there to see ryan and his lady jen race haha. and i wore my ridiculous skin suit aht shows off all my sexy curves, check it out:
 larry was there and did pretty well from what i saw and so did botto seeing as he lapped me towards the end, peters brother david did pretty well to but he wasnt that much further ahead of me. good race! next weekend is mercer cup sunday, just kind of annoying that the mens C race STARTS at 8 am.
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so the race this weekend was a washout for me, it was only barely 40 degrees and pouring rain in delaware so i decided not to race, but i went anyway to spectate and it was crazy how muddy the course was after the first lap. stuck around will after the B's and my friend botto's truck kinda got stuck in the mud but we got it out. then that night was eileens cousins wedding and that was pretty fun and interesting. the only let down was the food, wasnt that good but they did have sam adams octoberfest beer and it was awesome.
just bought some new gear for racing, got this awesome skinsuit for really cheap:
so watch out! next race is november 8th for me, but until then more training it is!
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| hillbilly hustle, |
[06 Oct 2009|08:33am] |
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raced sunday at the hillbilly hustle in elmer NJ, eileen came with and so did our friend noe who did her first race. i got 72 out of like 85 so iim ok with that, just gotta get a little quicker on the start/hole shot to get a better place right off the start. just found out about wednesday night cross racing in kensington for the next 3 wednesdays so i may do that instead of practice at belmont plateau. i also got really drunkat the race once i was finished since there was a beer garden with free beer so yeah it was hilarious. heres some pictures noe took.
passing that guy over the barriers
in the first lap, before i handed my glasses of to eileen since they were fogging up b/c of how warm it was.
theres also some video but its not posted up yet. t-town swap meet saturday!
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| life is like a box of... yeah you know |
[01 Oct 2009|08:00am] |
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ah fall is my favorite time of year, nice and cool. so things i'd say are going pretty well, im in the best shape ive been in in a while thanks to cyclocross, i have an awesome girlfriend who everything is so easy with, and i still have my job. i mean ive never really been unhappy with my life but to honestly say im happy with where my life is right now. i do what i wanna do and have been and have no regrets, everything ive done up until now has made me who i am and thats a good thing.
last night was cross practice which im really glad i started going to, everyone there pushes me to ride faster which helps me get in better shape and do better in races, and in wanting to ride faster ive changed my eating habits and drinking habits which is over all more healthy for me. i drink less and eat better, i mean i still eat some crappy food sometimes but its less than it used to be.
yeah im pretty psyched on life right now!
ps <3
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| cyclocross |
[22 Sep 2009|08:35am] |
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first cross race of the season is doen and was a success, my only goal was to finish and i did, and i wasnt even in last place, i was 99th out of about 125 so i did alright. saturday night me, jorge and our friends annette and gerik(of reload bags fame) drove down to baltimore to stay with jorge's old roomate evan who has awarehouse like 2 miles from the park where the race was. went to a bar and everyone got drunk except me, but i had a few drinks, was up till like 3 or 4 in the am and got up at like 645 to head over to the race. i really liked the course and saw a bunch of people i knew from philly there, mostly racing in the B class, while me and jorge raced in the C class. heres my results and some of the reults of my friends:
me: | 99 | 0 | kenny fetsurka | | | 588 | PBMA |
jorge:| 82 | 0 | jorge brito | | | 591 | philadelphia bike messenger association |
my friend lenore raced womens elite, shes fast:| 15 | 0 | Lenore Pipes | 5:10:00 | | 121 | unattached |
my friend botto:| 20 | 0 | Robert Botto | | | 604 | Trophy Bikes |
my friend shane, raced B's:| 8 | 0 | Shane Watters | | | 350 | Bicycle therapy |
and then jorge's dad and sister came up and we went out to eat with them and went back to the race to watch the other ones after ours and left around 230 b/c we were all tired from not really sleeping the night before.
next race is whirlybird cross, saturday at bryn athyn college near abington, so thats a lot closer than baltimore.
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things are great right now, eileen is awesome and im not tired of her, shes amazing <3. cyclocross season is upon us and my first race is in 3 weeks or so in charm city aka baltimore and my bike is all ready to go. my road bike is just about finished, CJ just needs to run the cables for me and change the cassette and put the chain on and then wrap the bars and im good to go. my niece is coming up sometime in september so that'll be fun, i miss her shes the only kid i truly dont mind.
and fall is almost here finally, had to wear arm warmers on my way to work!
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| new sugar skull |
[05 Aug 2009|11:53am] |
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sugar skull, will have pictures of screeching weasel logo tonight after eileen shoots them, the artist took this one and sent it to me. by drew @ kadillac tattoo.
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| NACCCs and tattoos |
[03 Aug 2009|11:36pm] |
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so the NACCCS were fun but i have no more interest in going back there anytime soon, too many maps are needed to navigate and apparantly boston is actually like 5 cities in one so street names repeat themselves in some places. confusing. also, it doesnt look like a city, doesn't smell bad and to many god damn white people. i don't get it. but the people who put the NACCCs together and who are messengers/in the bike seem are rad people. also they have a beach in the city so thats where i was once i fixed my slightly slipping cog on sunday which prevented me from doing the main race! pictures to come soon.
got back last night at almost midnight so i took today off to recover. chilled at the park for a while with people and then met up with eileen and rode out on kelly drive and had a mini picnic before she went to work and i went up to manyunk to get tattooed! shes so cute <3
got tattooed for like 3.5 hours and got hooked up, also got a sweet t-shirt of the shop in obnoxios purple and lime green, haha. so i got a sweet sugar skull in my elbow pit and the screeching weasel dude on the side of my wrist, they rule. pictures also to come.
so all in all life is rad right now!
and i guess we've reached the point of weird awkwardness haven't we in other non-related issues.
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| boston? |
[03 Aug 2009|07:56am] |
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so yeah just got back from the NACCCs in boston, and boston is def no philly. home is where the heart is and all that shit i gotta say. its just to nice up there, wide streets, no trash o anything smelly, shitty pizza, and theres like no black people or bums!
Getting around there you need like 4 maps just to figure out where youre going since boston is technically made up of like 4 cities and boston itself so a lot of the time we werent in boston but were in "boston". i dont get it, its stupid, like if west philly was its own city. but once you kinda get used to it its not terrible.
we didnt get in till like 2am friday and the main race wasnt on a closed course like every other NACCCs so it was a lot harder if you werent from boston, and my cog was slipping a little so i ended up not racing and hanging at a checkpoint, but someone had a lockring tool so my bike issues were taken care of.got back around 1130 last night, woo.
getting tattooed today and picnicing in the park with eileen, things are going great <3
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had sometime on vacation down the shore, went to wildwood thursday too hang out with eileen and we rode go carts and did this
stopped at a wal-mart in NJ and got an air conditioner fo 98 bucks. going to boston thursday to sunday for the NACCCs so gonna be a good weekend. also getting tattooed after work tomorrow, its about time!
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so tomorrow is my birthday, woohoo, yay for turning 28. if i thought id be where i am right now 10 years ago, im not sure what i was thinking but i love my life so fuck all you haters! vacation for a couple days! then tattoos, then the NACCCs!
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so yeah eileen is officially my girl friend, its pretty awesome!
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