Which is not surprising, given he had set out to walk nearly five hundred kilometers across the province in the first place. Cherkas is walking in Preston’s name, in Preston’s memory, and for the many other Manitoba firefighters who still live with the same invisible injuries. The obsessive precision of the number is a feature, not a bug: this is a firefighter’s fundraiser, and firefighters like details. About how too many still believe that needing help makes you weak. And because the truth of the walk is not whether he makes it to kilometer 489 without stopping.