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In 2008, my life changed overnight when I had 2 heart attacks within 2 weeks.

At the time, I was 17.5 stone, smoked 20 cigarettes a day and ate a lot of processed food.

In order to make me well again, I had to have stents fitted to the left and right arteries and after a few weeks of recovery, I was introduced for the first time to Burton Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit to help me get fit again. I always hated any kind of exercise and would dip in and out of exercising, but never take any of it seriously. My love for exercising stemmed from the sessions at cardiac rehab which led to me doing the Great North Run within 2 years of having the heart attacks and then I went on to do another half marathon, some adventure based courses and entered my first CrossFit competition at the age of 57 showing that life does not end when you have a heart attack.

Life was going well and i committed to train for my first Hyrox competition in 2024.

New Years Eve 2023, I was asked to go for an echocardiogram which is a routine test and left home telling my partner that I would be home in a couple of hours. During the test, I could see that the technician doing the test was looking worried and a doctor was called in who informed me that my heart rate was going at 160bpm and that I needed to be admitted immediately so that they could stabilise the heart rate with medication which I would be on for life as I now had a condition called artrial fibrallation on top of heart disease. It was also discovered that the right stent was failing and operating at 35%, so that also needed to be replaced and took me out for most of 2024.

November 2024, my second trip to cardiac rehab started. It was at this time that I realised that whilst the classes were great and the staff fantastic, their resources were not so great and that i wanted to give something back to help the place that helped me twice on my road back to recovery.

Therefore, I am doing 26 miles split between a C2 bike and rowing machine whilst trying to keep my heart rate at below 130bpm (this is harder than you think) to raise money for Burton Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit to enable them to get more equipment.

I would be so grateful if you could spare some money towards this worthy cause as you never know when you might need this service.

All monies will go to www.dbhc.org.uk/donate - Fund 70060 Cardiac Rehab Burton