The man who saved my life: How one rider survived a mid-ride cardiac arrest

Saved by a swift-thinking passer-by after his heart stopped dead on a Sunday ride, Rob Burdett wanted to meet up to say thanks

(Image credit: chris catchpole)

There hadn’t been the faintest warning for Rob Burdett.

He was a fit, clean-living 47-year-old out for a routine Sunday ride with his Cranleigh CC club-mates.

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David Bradford
Features editor

David Bradford is features editor of Cycling Weekly (print edition). He has been writing and editing professionally for more than 15 years, and has published work in national newspapers and magazines including the Independent, the Guardian, the Times, the Irish Times, Vice.com and Runner’s World. Alongside his love of cycling, David is a long-distance runner with a marathon PB of two hours 28 minutes. Having been diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) in 2006, he also writes about sight loss and hosts the podcast Ways of Not Seeing.