Jim Holcomb was three-fourths of the way through a 100-mile bike ride in rural Michigan last year when he collapsed on the side of the road and went into cardiac arrest.

While driving home from her son’s soccer game, Brittany Miles noticed Holcomb, who was visiting from Albany Park, on the ground beside another man who was on the phone and appeared frantic. Miles knew she had to stop.

Miles, who has been CPR certified for about seven years but had never performed the emergency procedure, checked on Holcomb and realized he had no pulse and wasn’t breathing.

She tried to get him to respond, then immediately started chest compressions until he started to make noise and she was able to bring him up on his side.

She performed another round of chest compressions as the bystander on the phone

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