Strangers Save Marathon Runner’s Life After Suffering Heart Attack During Race - Inspirational Videos

Several people stepped up and sprang into action, saving a fellow runner’s life when he suffered a massive heart attack while running a half marathon in Pennsylvania.

Exercise is a good, necessary and worthwhile activity that helps keep people healthy and allows them to avoid some medical issues. However, no amount of running, daily exercise or weight training will protect someone from every single ailment that can hurt or damage our bodies. The body, much like everything else in life because of sin, is imperfect. 

This is a reality that 65-year-old Greg Woodman knows all too well. Greg had the aim of participating in the famed Boston Marathon. As part of his training, Greg took part in a half marathon in Pennsylvania. 

But soon after beginning the race in the Keystone State, things went horribly wrong. Greg experienced a massive heart attack, according to a clip posted on YouTube. 

“He was definitely dead at that time, yes,” one woman said in the video.

However, God placed the right people in the right place who knew what to do to try and get Greg’s heart working again. They had been prepared for such situations. Medical professionals, including two ER nurses, were also running in the Pennsylvania half marathon.

Those medical professionals got to work immediately, taking turns performing chest compressions on Greg until an ambulance arrived on the scene.

One man in the clip mentioned that he actually got sick to his stomach at one point but fought through it to help save Greg’s life.

“I started compressions right there,” one man said. “It felt like I broke every rib in his chest, honestly. And it made me, like, sick to my stomach, but I was like, ‘I have to do what I have to do.’”

But those medical professionals weren’t the only people who aided during the emergency. Bystanders helped to count for the medical professionals as they performed chest compressions on Greg. 

After six minutes, the clip states, Greg’s heart started beating again. 

“If I had been running alone, I would not be here today,” Greg said.

1 Timothy 4:8 “For bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which is, and of that which is to come.”