killed by the kids

dorksquad55 @ 2009-11-09T10:47:00

2009-11-09T15:50:15Z

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.

dorksquad55 @ 2009-10-19T15:25:00

2009-10-19T19:30:17Z

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!

hillbilly hustle,

2009-10-06T12:41:57Z

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!

life is like a box of... yeah you know

2009-10-01T12:06:29Z

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

whirlybird cyclocross @ bryn athyn college, 9/26/2009

2009-09-28T11:55:26Z

whirlybird cyclocross @ bryn athyn college, 9/26/2009, here some pictures from the race:

and coming over the finish line:

cyclocross

2009-09-22T12:49:27Z

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:

kenny fetsurka

588

PBMA

jorge:

jorge brito

591

philadelphia bike messenger association

my friend lenore raced womens elite, shes fast:

Lenore Pipes

5:10:00

121

unattached

my friend botto:

Robert Botto

604

Trophy Bikes

my friend shane, raced B's:

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.

dorksquad55 @ 2009-09-14T18:16:00

2009-09-14T18:16:33Z

first race of the season!

Nittany Lion and Charm City Ready to Kick Off East Coast UCI Racing

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bored at work

2009-09-08T16:15:50Z

so im bored, great weekend, hanging out, partying, good amount of riding, nice extra day off, eileens parents house sunday, hanging out with my brother the lightweight haha. heres the states ive been to so far, hoping to add some west coast this winter!

and the countries around the world:

dorksquad55 @ 2009-08-31T08:06:00

2009-08-31T12:13:18Z

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!

new sugar skull

2009-08-05T15:57:28Z

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.

NACCCs and tattoos

2009-08-04T03:42:00Z

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.

boston?

2009-08-03T12:02:06Z

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

dorksquad55 @ 2009-07-26T23:26:00

2009-07-27T03:31:43Z

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!

dorksquad55 @ 2009-07-20T23:50:00

2009-07-21T03:50:17Z

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!

weekend

2009-07-12T20:21:15Z

i was covered in cows blood and beer yesterday, rode my bike like 5 hours including the race and cyclocross riding back the wissahickon yesterday and was at FDR for way to long yesterday for punx picnic, fridays show ruled, jays new band shreds and i got their cd. sleeping next to someone is way better than sleeping alone, i need to clean my bikes, i need to get an air conditioner soon. donovan is moving in this month and george and liza are moving out and im excited. the tour de france makes me nerd out on cycling, ive watched it all day everyday hahah. and <3

ps, beer and chipwhichs go great together!

dorksquad55 @ 2009-07-08T05:44:00

2009-07-08T09:46:59Z

so yeah eileen is officially my girl friend, its pretty awesome!

4th of julyyyyu

2009-07-06T12:09:28Z

Oh man I forgot to say Saturday after the fireworks on the parkway, eileen came over and we were up till 3am talking and having a sing a long to brand new hahaha. Then we both woke up at like 6am for no reason and decided to go to the melrose diner for breakfast, it was nice. Then we went riding doing some errands and then went for a ride on west river drive.

It's weird and nice at the same time that we're so comfortable around eachother so quickly, I had a booger and she picked my nose, it was hilarious haha

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4th of july

2009-07-04T10:41:37Z

happy 4th of july i guess. riding up to see my parents this am but i have other stuff to do back here this afternoon.

things are still going well, left work early yesterday b/c i was bored and no one else was working and went and hung out in rittenhouse. then hung out with eileeeen.

also come to this:

wildwood and shark week

2009-06-30T18:11:53Z

eileen and i, june 29, 2009 down at wildwood for the day. got a little sun burned and chilllled, awesome time.

shark week 09, outside the philadelphia soft pretzel co. like 8am haha, loong fun weekend!

good weekend made even better by taking monday off to go the shore! also was chased by 2 police helicopters friday night helping nunn out, was pretty fucking crazy but we got his bike back. still tired.

dorksquad55 @ 2009-06-22T12:57:00

2009-06-22T16:57:17Z

going to wildwood next week with eileen, so that'll be twice going to the shore this summer, not sure if i'll get down there anymore this summer but so far im ok with summer, good friends, good times, riding, riding, things are working out pretty damn good. just gotta get rid of this god damn rain!

shark week starts thursday and jess is coming up for the weekend, gonna be good times. im gonna be exhausted sunday but if its as good as last year it'll be worth it!

dorksquad55 @ 2009-06-22T10:54:00

2009-06-22T02:55:30Z

bison burger is pretty tasty, had some today, then movie time with the girl, was very good, back to work tomorrow

shark week this weekend!

dorksquad55 @ 2009-06-16T00:38:00

2009-06-16T04:37:41Z

Oh man this girl is amazing, don't even know what else to say.

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dorksquad55 @ 2009-06-08T09:22:00

2009-06-08T13:25:20Z

so i finally bought a computer just now, well its a netbook off of woot.com but it was only 170 bucks so thats awesome, its about time i owned a computer haha.

yesterday was the TD bank bike race and it was awesome, got to lemon hill around 9 and started drinking, saw a lot of people i hadn't seen in a hot minute but not my brother b/c hes lame. got sunburn ONLY on my neck and no where else, not sure how that happened.

i have a movie date tomorrow with a girl who is one of melissa rae's friends, i met her back in like february and had a crush on her but she had a bf, well i guess kind of still does but they're on the rocks, but anyway we're going to see drag me to hell b/c it looks (not)scary haha.

just been riding a lot, donovan is moving in in july after george and liza move out, so the house will be a bit cleaner since they are stoners and just left shit sitting around b/c they forgot about it.

i'm ready for it to be fall so i can get out there and race and hurt myself and get my ass kicked, but its sooo much fun.

Women be shoppin'

2009-06-05T07:47:52Z

Oh life, somethings get more complicated, somethings get confusing, just be patient, haha atleast it's raining, it'll be cool

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dorksquad55 @ 2009-06-04T00:33:00

2009-06-04T04:33:07Z

Yes I meant what I posted before to a certain extent

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