OK, so this probably wasn't the best way to be introduced to triathlons. This one was crazy! The swim was actually the least of my problems, the bike was another story. The 9 mile course was all hills and not "weeee fun hills", but "are we in
The Himalayas?" kind of hills. Same with the 3 mile run but that was not as dangerous because when you fell down a hill your bike was not there to crush you...this only happened twice to me. All in all it was great and I signed up for another triathlon June 25th. This time, no hills.