Yesterday was a typical nonriding day. It takes more than one thing to keep the fanatic away from the source of his mania. For me it takes at least three if not four factors to have me off the bike on a weekend day. Crappy weather almost always leads the bill and yesterday started grey and cold and turned wet and cold by noon. Sometimes the threat of rain is even worse than rain itself. Sort of a monster in the closet situation. You can't see it, but you know it's there. Lack of sleep is another prime mover. A course of super strong antibiotics that I'm taking at the moment have upset both my stomach and my always tennuous sleep patterns so I wasn't exactly chomping at the bit from an energy reserve point of view. Distractions from other hobbies also hinders, and there were two novels both within a hundred pages of my finishing that compelled me to spend the morning nailed to the couch with a book in front of my nose.