He calls his business Body Construction, and he designs corporate fitness programs and leads personal and group exercise sessions in the early morning and late afternoon and evening. His office is in the basement of his duplex in a new subdivision. When he looks out the sliding glass door, he can sometimes see deer. Most of what he does routinely would kill most people. That way he's back by early afternoon and can spend some time with his girlfriend.
Decker explains with a laugh.
The year 2000 was momentous for Decker. The fun began in May with the mother of all endurance contests, the Raid Gauloises, which last year was a 520-mile adventure race from Tibet to northern India via Nepal and the Himalayas. He finished in eight days. He doesn't fit the stereotype. Endurance athletes tend to be sour and sullen, introverted and dyspeptic, grimacing in perpetual agony like the long-suffering St. Sebastian, exuding all the warmth and personality of a dead haddock.