Keen runner Glenn Davies suffered a heart attack in the middle of a race - but refused to stop until he had crossed the finish line.
The 51-year-old knew something wasn’t quite right during the 5km Parkrun event and while he slowed to a walk, he was determined to complete the course.
It was only when he was grabbed by his wife, who had also just completed the same run, that he realised something was wrong.
“I was about half-a-mile from the end when I started to feel a bit strange,” said Glenn.
“I would say I felt a dull ache, not a sharp pain.
“I slowed down to a walk but I was determined to finish.”
Wife Samantha, 47, a clinical podiatrist who works for the NHS, became worried when Glenn hadn’t finished and went back to meet him.
He was “grey” and complaining of discomfort in his chest and seemed more breathless than usual.
An electrocardiogram (ECG) came back clear and his blood pressure was fine, but doctors at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary in West Yorkshire insisted he stay for further tests which revealed his heart muscle had been damaged.
Glenn, from Lindley, Huddersfield, was immediately transferred to the resuscitation area and that night taken by ambulance to the coronary care unit at Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax.
He underwent surgery to insert two stents into an artery on the Monday and was back home the following night at the beginning of May.