HaHaHaa

Healthy Athlete Had A Heart Attack Anyway

Why HaHaHaa?

On Sunday 6th August 1978, my dad went out to play golf and never came back.

I was 14, he had just turned 52.

He had a massive heart attack on the green and his untrained companions didn’t know what to do. I later learned:

• most members of my family had died of heart attacks in their early 50s
• basic CPR training was not rolled out in the UK until the 1980s
• defibrillators were not a regular tool in UK ambulances until the 1990s

Since that day, I have never been unfit and have tried to balance sensible lifestyle and fun.

Aged 61, turns out that I’m a Healthy Athlete who Had A Heart Attack Anyway.

I have discovered that lifetime fit people are not regularly seen by health services and the numbers on the machines that go ping can be unusual when compared to NARPs (Non Athletic Real People).

This website is an open club for people whose heart rate / blood pressure / exercise load are outside the national norm. Comments and story submission sections will appear in the near future.

If you’d like to contribute, please send some prose and contact details via the contact form .

Here’s my story:

• how a strange shoulder pain while Indoor cycling became a short holiday in hospital
• 2025 recovery journey and the dawn of the LRB (Lab Rat Bruce).
• 2026 recovery journey with physio at the Hospital.
• Doing PE with the Surrey NHS CResT team - and awesome rehabilitation programme