A man is recovering after suffering a heart attack while cycling along a New York state road — and he has a quick-acting passerby to thank for helping him.
Speaking to local ABC affiliate station WHAM for a story on Thursday, Oct. 3, former teacher and grandfather-of-six Mark Reissig of Walworth — located just outside of Rochester — recalled how he was 16 miles into a routine bike ride earlier this summer when he started to feel fatigued. As he would later learn, he was experiencing the beginning of a heart attack.
“I’ve had no prior indication of any health problems with my heart whatsoever. No family history of it, and so it was devastating,” Reissig told the outlet.
According to Reissig, a health problem like this came out of the blue, considering he is an athlete who cycles extremely often.
“I used to bike 160 miles a week on average,” he said. “I’ve been doing…
