For a while now I've been hearing how scary the bike course is for the triathlon I'm doing on Sunday. For all you New Englanders, this is the Webster course aka the course used for the Danskin women's triathlon in MA. I have to admit, I've been getting a little nervous about it. In spinning, the instructor had us similate this course since she's done it herself quite a few times. I wasn't thrilled about it by any means, but then again it did seem doable. However, in spinning class, each person sets the resistance of their own bike (there are no numbers are anything to mark how much you have added) and I worried that perhaps the "hill" that I created by tightening the resistance was more of a bump.
Because time has been flying faster than I can pedal, I just haven't had time to go practice this course. After yet another conversation about the hill with another veteran of the course, I came to one conclusion: it must be like riding a bike up a wall. I needed to go see the course for myself. As I told my husband, I wasn't worried about getting hurt; I was worried about hurting my pride when I fell off my back at .1 mile an hour because of the steepness of the hill and my clipless pedals.
This evening all both boys, my husband and I piled into the car and went to look at the course. So it's not as bad as a wall, but it definitely is steep. Plus it's on a busy road. I've been told it will be like the other triathlon and they will have the police there to manage traffic. The only thing scarier to me than stopping is going downhill on a busy road with a traffic light.
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