“It was pretty heartbreaking, the uncertainty of what his future would look like,” father Rod Brown said.
“He was a really sick kid.”
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Harrison Brown, 6, was born with a critical heart condition, but broke his personal best last weekend, running the 5km Hagley parkrun in 21mins 26seconds.
Brown said he did not think it would be possible for Harri to take part in sport and run like other children.
When Harri asked to run with his father when he was 3, Brown thought it “probably isn’t for him”.
They began by running 100 metres, then Harri was carried the rest of the way on his father’s shoulders. But by the time he was 4, he was running up and down Halswell Quarry on his own.