A new trend I see emerging is Twitter– similar to facebook, but based only on status updates. Especially with the cycling world this site is growing very quickly. 

http://www.twitter.com/williamdorn

Lots of pro-cyclists and teams have pages, so you can keep in touch with their day-to-day life, such as Lance, Zabriske, and Danielson.

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I really like hot chocolate, and have a new theory on how to create the best. You must have:

2 tablespoons Godiva Hot Chocolate

1 tablespoon Swiss Miss with Marshmellows

1 1/2 cups 2% milk (for a mug-full)

Heat the milk in the microwave for 1 minute and 40 seconds, or froth the milk to roughly 120-130 degrees. Next, just mix the chocolate mixes and milk together. 

Mm. Hot Chocolate!

Show was great! I’m a big Mayer fan.. So I really enjoyed it. A few pics are attached.

After living so long in Greenville and having not ridden either Caesar’s Head or Paris Mtn. on my bike came with much shame. This weekend fixed half of that problem at least, after successfully riding Caesar’s Head. The elevation was around 4000 feet and included a 5-6 mile steady climb that really got to me with about a mile to go. The real real fun part was the descent though, where every time I looked at my computer I was going over 41 mph. The ride left from Furman with my coach and a few other people from my team, and lasted around 57 miles/3 hrs. I have some pictures to attach as well. I will be riding it again soon, that is after Paris Mtn.

It was really a tough feat to find a parking spot at Panera, though the parking lot was pretty big. Once I got inside and ordered my chicken caesar salad I now had to hunt for a table to sit at. This common thing made me see not only how Paners has made fast food healthy for you, but also how much healthy food is in demand by the public and just not ready available.
Yay Panera (aka Saint Louis Bread Co in the STL area)!

I’m pretty stoked about the BMW crit this thursday. During the last one, racing juniors, I got second which was pretty fun. Instead, this week i’m going to do the Cat 4/5s so i’m not totally sure how it will play out. 

Last weekend was the ‘French Broad Cycling Classic’ up in the area surrounding Asheville NC. The first race was a Time Trial up in Marshall NC, which I found to be pretty fun. Before I left my dad had an old titanium Litespeed sitting around and an awesome pair of Spinergy wheels which put together would make a pretty sweet TT bike. My start time was 6:30:30, the course was an out and back 20K with a slight uphill there and a nice downhill on the way back. I finished 12th for juniors with a time of 33:12.. So I think i did good, somewhere in the middle of the group. 

The day after was a criterium in downtown Brevard NC. The course was fast with 4 corners (one of which was rather iffy) with a nice uphill finish. My placing was 15th.

Sunday led to the Asheville NC criterium in downtown. Honestly, the course kept me a little anxious because one of the turns was a bad hairpin coming from a downhill leading into an uphill.. I thought it would be really dangerous, but ended up being really fun after I got used to it. I finished 14th, worked really well with another member of my team, Chris Calder, whom I led up the hill (toward the finish) and he led me back around the course. For the finish I led him around the course and let him go for the hill, leaving him at 13th. Very fun race. 

Next week also starts the Crossroads Cycling Classic, which is a series of criteriums around Charlotte and Central NC. I’m not necessarily into 10 days in a row of crits, so I think I may just do the races in Statesville and Winston Salem NC.