Regarding the City of Portland Triathlon, Claudia has decided to do the swim, which leaves me to do the 40k bike ride.

This shouldn't be too difficult. I already know that I can cycle that distance. It's the hills that I am concerned with. Click here to see the route. The bike ride is shown in red. The course is to complete that 8.2 mi loop 3 times. Anyone familiar with the route knows that the ride up Barbur Blvd and then up Capital Hwy and then up some more through Terwilliger is going to be a bitch...times 3!

My goal is to do the loop once this week to test it out. I gotta figure out what I am dealing with here.