Shock as well-known Inverness fitness fanatic dies
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A FITNESS fanatic who completed one of the world’s toughest cycle races only four days earlier collapsed and died while having a cup of coffee.
Now devastated family and friends of John King are waiting for the results of a post mortem to find out what caused the sudden death of the apparently fighting fit 47-year-old.
Mr King was a well-known face in Inverness where he had been a popular window cleaner for 10 years. He was also a keen cyclist, martial arts expert and hill walker.
His death came only four days after completing the gruelling 66-mile Loch Ness Etape cycling race.
He collapsed without warning while having coffee with an elderly client in Raigmore Estate whose windows he had just finished cleaning and died at Raigmore Hospital despite the ambulance attending in about three minutes and doctors fighting to revive him for more than an hour.
His partner Dilys Couttie said: “He was so pleased that he had broken his four-hour target, finishing the etape in three hours 58 minutes. He seemed fine afterwards although tired, naturally. He always seemed so fit with his cycling, taekwondo to black belt level and six years ago he started bagging Munro mountains and had done more than 60. He was always well and never had any health problems.
“He was so well liked locally, a really obliging man who took a pride in being a traditional window cleaner who used ladders at height and not the long poles, as he said they did not do such a good job. He took a pride in his work.”
Full story in today's Highland News.
