If I could find some cycling buddies around here, Id take off to the Blue Ridge and find me some real hills. Like I said, there are lots of hills around here--almost everything is a hill of some sort--but they are very short things. Little stingers. Most you can just power up. Some are little stingers, enough to get you burning before they stop. Theres only one hill around here that consistently kicks my ass--its very steep for about 250 meters, which makes you hurt, and then keeps climbing at a shallower grade for about a mile. It hurts, a lot. Never ridden down it though, and because its so shallow for so long, I doubt it would do much.
There are some bigger hills, I just havent ridden them. Most of them involve 4-6 lanes of serious traffic
I put in a new flat record the other day--36.7. Out in the country, some guys just took off, and I jumped on their wheel. We were *hauling* for about 500 meters before we hit a hill and then stopped to wait for the rest of the group.