put it into hyperdrive

earlier this summer, on the bgt i heard a guy tell his girlfriend to "put it into hyperdrive". i'm pretty sure he was talking about her bike. i'm not sure. well today in the road stage of univest, i needed hyperdrive. i can't remember where i left it. fast race. really fast. it was pretty much as i expected. the beginning was a mad dash out of town with everybody sprinting from corner to corner. it was strung out. early attacks formed a group off the front pretty quick. they stayed away for a while, but i have no idea how. they must have put it into hyperdrive, 'cause we were killin' it in the field. first kom was ok. i hit it in decent position and was able to carry a lot of speed up it and dart through some holes. my strategy for the race was to bury myself on the climbs to stay up in the front group(s) and then recover. well, i managed the first part, but the second part eluded me. the first climb wasn't so tough, only 500 meters or so. but the false flats after killed me. i got over just off of a group but couldn't find that hyperdrive to get me there. i let a number of guys come past and i was finally able to kick it onto somebody's wheel. we were all strung out trying to catch the main group. for the next 10 or so minutes i was breathing raspy and rough. that isn't good. cho cho breathing is what terry calls it. the race just didn't relent. we hit the second climb after a really heavy false flat run-up. teams were drilling it on the front and we were pretty strung out when we hit it. man that kicked. 20%, at least. maybe i did find hyperdrive, i don't know. i wasn't so much trying to ride to the top but rather trying not to fall over. i could just barely turn the pedals over. guys were swerving, falling and walking. the weaker among us were begging to be pushed. my eyes rolled back and i got dizzy. made it over the top though with even my t-rex arms full of lactic acid. i was in an ok group and we were just off the front group. luckily on this one it tips straight down. the descent was curvy, dark and wet. i'd liked to have railed the corners but we couldn't see what was on the other side. a camera moto came by us and screwed our lines up. i locked it up going into one corner. troy would slide sideways and ride into the ditch on that corner. we got down and were 20 seconds behind the group. guys were pulling through, sort of, and we got back on. never got to the front after that. there was a brief slow down and it was pegged again. i hit the feed zone on the back and fell off fiddling with my musette bag. somebody had the field strung out in front of me. i got back on when they slowed down. i was hurtin'. i was so beyond myself i could hardly see. we rolled a long a while and i check our average speed. 28 mph. yeah. that's a crit pace at home. a fast crit at that. i was working my way up and we hit a rise. i tried to stand up to get over it and there was nothing. i slid backwards but came over just on the back. i clung on for dear life as it was strung out again. it gets rough back there, guys opening gaps, and blowing up. shortly after we hit another rise and i was cooked. i couldn't hang on. i slid backwards and struggled up the 6% rise like it was a 20% rise. finally i got off my bike and sat in the ditch for a while until i felt better. a good sized group caught me and i rode in with the guy who'd won the first two sprints and alejandro acton, from agentina. won a couple of stages at the tour of argentina. guy's legs are bigger around than terry's torso. he won the GMSR crit. doped?

univest is a hard race. you gotta bring your a game. tom brought his a game. he found his hyperdrive and finished 12th or 3th (or 14th). he's having dinner with jonathan vaughters tonight.