Leg 2: Tuktoyaktuk to Teslin.
August 12 to October, 2021.
Running for mental health.
After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering at Concordia University, JMK embarked on his first running journey, 4,654 km from Montreal to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico hoping the world would take a stand to improve our educational methods. Back in Canada in 2018, he had a snowboarding accident as a photographer where he shattered his femur in four pieces and had a compression fracture on his thoracic spine. Since then, he has been recovering and fighting mental health with the unconditional support of his life partner Iris A. Lomeli Lopez.
Route.
I am attempting to average 30 km per day in 60 days for a total of 1,548 km running through Tuktoyaktuk, Inuvik, Fort McPherson, Eagle Plains, Tombstone Territorial Park, Dawson City, Stewart Crossing, Pelly Crossing, Carmacks, Whitehorse, and Teslin.
A documentary by LOT17.
Award Winning filmmakers Anna & Helen will be filming Leg 2 to make a documentary about men’s mental health.
Our Mission
To tell the story of how one man overcame a life changing injury to undertake a groundbreaking journey across the Yukon.
To show that in many cases, exercise can be equally as effective as antidepressants.
To abolish the stigma surrounding men’s mental health.
