re:longest bike ride yet...

Ok so am doing my first sprint in Aug and have only been covering my distance on the bike 14 miles, my son and a neighbor thought it would be good for me to start getting some longer rides in, so we head out yesterday morning they did not tell me the ditance we were doing but from looking at my logs they knew what i was able to do......OH MY GOD, hills hills and more bloody hills, the thing is i am still scared to go down big hills without using my brakes boy did this hinder me as on the up climb i just could not finish the first it was so hard, but was determined i would do this so off we go  anyway to cut this story short i managed my longest and hardest bike ride yet 30 miles with some big hills and the last hill i just went for it did not pull on the brakes and made the hill with some effort but not feeling as bad...they were good would pas me and say do not let us get away from you so i worked hard the whole time, so glad i have them doing this with me and we plan on doing this once a week.
lol
Sarah