October 31 , 2003
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Muscle & Fitness Features Joe Decker and Lance Armstrong Surviving "Extreme Cardio"
The December issue of Muscle & Fitness Magazine profiles five athletes including Joe Decker and Lance Armstrong who have survived "extreme cardio." Decker completed the Badwater Ultra Marathon two times. Every July, this 135-mile running race winds through Death Valley where the asphalt temperature reaches 210 degrees (F). "The first year I was there, I melted the soles off seven pairs of tennis shoes," Decker tells Muscle & Fitness. "Guys have blood pumping out their shoes. You get there and you're like 'Christ. This sucks.'" According to Muscle & Fitness, the Badwater Ultramarthon burns 22,500 calories and would take approximately 25 hours running on a treadmill at a moderate pace.
Decker first came to the attention of Muscle & Fitness because of his extraordinary physical fitness achievements including breaking the 2000 Guinness World Records "24-Hour Physical Fitness Challenge." Decker will be sharing his secrets to losing weight and getting fit in his upcoming book The World's Fittest You: Four Weeks to Total Fitness (Dutton, 2004). He also writes a syndicated column Get Fit with the World's Fittest Man and is developing a health and fitness television show with NBC Today Show co-host Al Roker's production company.
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