My taste in music is beyond reproach.

My latest recommendation for you would be a band cut from your own cloth: the late 80s indie punk band, "Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine."

They are actually still around and touring.

Despite it sacred cow status I think that the elite cyclist can be freakier looking than the elite distance runners. I mean, the young Galen Rupp is freaky

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...lazar650.3.jpg

but as MW immortalized previously as his avatar, rupp can't hold a candle to Rasmussen on the freaky scale:

http://www.professionalcycling.info/.../rasmussen.jpg

ON a related note, it was just discovered that Kenya has lots of good endurance runners.

http://www.theonion.com/content/atlas/