The Kits Have Arrived!

The Tulane kits for the 2011 road season have finally arrived! We received them at Wednesday's team meeting and started riding in them immediately. A few of us went out for a Saturday "fun" ride around the city and made sure to throw our kits on. We stopped by a great Italian ice cream and pastry shop called Angelo Brocato's on the way back to Tulane, and it has got to have the best gelato and Italian pastries in New Orleans. I mean, this place is a gold mine (there must have been 30 or 40 customers going through in the short span that we were there). It's a win in my book.

Funny story: On the way over to the gelato place, we had to ride over some streetcar tracks. Unfortunately, a teammate got his front wheel caught in the tracks while turning and ate it. Hard. At least it wasn't anything a little bit of gelato (and a visit to a local bike shop) won't fix.

(A couple of teammates assess the damage from the beautifully [un]orchestrated wipe out. The one on the left was a very angry panda until he got his gelato.)

(Once inside, we actually had to choose something from the menu, which was a more difficult decision than we thought. Everything looked so good!)

(Reaction to seeing this: MUST. HAVE. NOW!)

(Baba Rhum pastry and Zuppa Inglese flavored gelato)

(Money shot of the Italian goodness)

(Mini-cannoli)

(Story time. Luckily, Angry Panda quickly became Happy Panda upon purchase of gelato.)

(Those arm warmers are definitely just for show. Translation: They provide zero warmth. There will be long sleeve Under Armour next time.)

In other news, Alberto Contador received a one year ban from cycling, which is good or bad depending on whether you're one of his fans. Also, Tulane Cycling is four weeks out from the first conference race at UT Austin. We'll be practicing time trial drills, as well as paceline drills, as the date gets closer. But for now we'll keep going strong with team training rides and morning rides with the local teams. Keep on pedaling!