Just over two years ago, Andy King had a double lung transplant at the Alfred Hospital.

Before the operation, Mr King wanted to be a competitive sportsman.

A lung capacity of 16 per cent and difficulty breathing cut short his sporting ambitions.

Mr King's story is completely different now.

His lung capacity is now 122 per cent—100 per cent being the optimum and anything above that extraordinary—and he is coming along in leaps and bounds.

Mr King recently competed in the Run to the G, coming home in the top 10 per cent.

'I was a bit disappointed at coming 197th,' Mr King said.

'Then my wife reminded me that before the transplant, I couldn't even take the bins out.

'That put it in perspective.'

Mr King is the Chief Executive Officer of an aged care family business that recently won the title of Victorian Family Business of the Year.

He also has two small children, Emma, 3, and Fraser, 1, and is relishing the fact that he can now be a 'proper' father to them and a husband to his wife, Jo.