A chartered surveyor who was shot in both legs and the chest during the terrifying terrorist attack in Mumbai said he had completed “unfinished business” when he finished a duathlon on Sunday.

Harnish Patel, 29, formerly of Santos Road, was using walking frames and crutches until March this year, but raised money for the British Red Cross when he ran in the Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity London event.

Mr Patel was in the Leopold Cafe, Mumbai, last November and was shot in both legs and the chest when terrorists wielding AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades opened fire.

He said he was only alive because “the bullets missed all my arteries and major organs”.

After surgery in India Mr Patel underwent intensive physiotherapy at the Hillingdon hospital in London, where he was helped by the Red Cross.

He focused on getting back to “the way things were” by swimming every day and going back to running, his favourite sport.

The duathlon was an attempt to “write off some unfinished business”, after he pulled out of the 2006 event, he said.

Despite a slow time Mr Patel said he was “very comfortable doing the running stage”.

Asked if he saw himself as a role model for those who have suffered serious injury, he said: “I don’t see myself as much of anything, but I just crack on with life, I always have and always will. You just have to navigate through the obstacles of life and keep plugging away.”

About 9.40pm on November 26 gunmen opened fire on the cafe. Six customers and two waiters were killed. The attacks across Mumbai left 163 civilians and nine gunmen dead.