TRIATHLETE TRAINS WITH SPAM

TRIATHLETE TRAINS WITH SPAM

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio (Wireless Flash) -- Most athletes eat healthy low fat foods -- but one Ohio jock swears by canned SPAM. 46-year-old Bob Brubaker -- who will be competing in the Ironman Triathalon next month -- is training for the event by eating tins of the fatty mystery meat. Brubaker -- who's a pastor by trade -- claims the fat in SPAM helps him replenish energy lost while biking, swimming and running for miles at a time. The pork meat product is a porker when it comes to fat: more than 80 percent of the calories in SPAM are fat calories. He also plans to eat a can of SPAM the night before he runs the Ironman race in Hawaii, which coincidentally happens to be one of the biggest markets for SPAM worldwide. But that doesn't brother Brubaker. He says his wife will be whipping up a special SPAM cheesecake for the post-race celebration.