{"id":72189,"date":"2025-10-13T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/72189\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:08:07","slug":"man-undertakes-2000-mile-quest-to-boost-mental-health-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/72189\/","title":{"rendered":"Man undertakes 2,000-mile quest to boost mental health awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Jonkmans said obstacles, including a tendon injury and Storm Amy in Scotland, had forced him to &#8220;roll with the punches&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He aimed to run 50 miles a day to John O&#8217;Groats and cycle 100 miles a day back but his injury forced him to adapt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Jonkmans said running had helped him with his own mental health challenges in the past four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was in the lowest point of my life [four years ago],&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I had no hope for my future and I wasn&#8217;t proud of who I was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Through support, finding a love for ultra running and realising that our limits are set by nothing and nobody but ourselves I managed to turn things around.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Jonkmans said obstacles, including a tendon injury and Storm Amy in Scotland, had forced him to &#8220;roll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-72189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}