Long-Distance Skateboarder Breaks World Records.
CABRERA: In today's "Fit Nation," meet the man who holds the Guinness World Record for the farthest distance ever traveled on a skateboard in 24 hours. Here's Dr. Sanjay Gupta.</s>DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Andrew Andras is a giant in the small but competitive world of long- distance skating.</s>ANDREW ANDRAS, LONG-DISTANCE SKATING COMPETITION COMPETITOR: You can kind of say it's between, say, a cyclist and a runner.</s>GUPTA: At 39 years old, Andras is the ultra skate world record holder, skating over 300 miles in just 24 hours.</s>ANDRAS: There's no books out there on how to skateboard for 24 hours. So it was a lot of figuring out, how to feed the body and your training program.</s>GUPTA: Andras is a firefighter paramedic in Miami-Dade.</s>ANDRAS: It's a very physical, demanding job. It's a very stressful job and we need forms of stress relief from that. Being out on the long board and racing was my answer. I love the competition, the sport and pushing yourself past the limit that you didn't think you could do mentally or physically. The human spirit wants to be challenged.