A runner prepares to run 40,000km around the world to raise money for charity.
Polish ultra-runner Tomasz Dybala, 44, who uses . have lived in London For 21 years, the plan is to spend more than three years in phases around the world: from London to Athens; from Cairo to Kuwait City; From Indonesia up through southeast Asia To Hong Kong, Then from the west to the east coast of America, starting in Los Angeles and ending in New York.
Tomasz will travel by air between each stage, and has planned regular trips to London to see his two sons.
Polish ultra-runner Tomas Dybala, 44, who has lived in London for 21 years, plans to spend more than three years around the world
Tomasz would travel by air or sea between each stage, and planned regular trips to London to see his two sons. pictured, on one of his training runs
He will fund his journey through thrift, sponsorship and will continue to serve as the keynote speaker.
He explained: ‘We will have a lot of equipment behind us and between phases (Europe-Arabia, Arab-Asia, Asia-America) we will have a break of up to four weeks.
‘It’s not going to go on continuously. It’s impossible to do it this way. We need time to reorganize our effort and move all the equipment to a new location.
‘My body needs time to recover, and I have two sons in London, and they need their father. We have planned weekend breaks and half-time breaks to see our boys every three weeks.
Tomasz, which intends to close in August, will initially stay in a string of hotels. A support crew with a caravan will join him full-time at the end of October 2022, allowing him to be comfortable on the road and save money.
Tomasz, which intends to close in August, will initially stay in a string of hotels. A support team with a caravan will join him full-time at the end of October 2022, allowing him to be comfortable on the road and save money.
The goal of the runner is to run the circumference of the Earth: 40,075 km.
He has been training all over the UK by running about 40 kms a day.
He said: ‘I do these runs myself. I just run with a backpack. And I’m running from hotel to hotel.
‘One day I ran 56 km. I was running 40 km uphill and the last 16 km was down the hill. I ran out of water twice. It was quite difficult.
‘I’m gradually increasing the distance every week. Currently I am running about 50 kms a day.
‘I have to run 300 km in a week, about 1,350 km in a month. I am running on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
‘And I’m reaching 75km a day. I will finish it in the first two weeks of July.
Tomasz started long distance running in 2018 to improve his mental health.
He said: ‘And then I got divorced. I lost my business and I was in a bad state of mind for some time.
‘And I just needed to do something with myself and I decided to start training for bigger challenges.’
His first challenge in 2019 was to walk 5 million steps in 100 days. He increased his strides and was exercising 12-14 hours a day by the end of the challenge.
He then attempted to run 11,000 km from Hanoi, Vietnam to Bali, Indonesia.
However, he was forced to curtail his plans when the lockdown hit.
He said, ‘I fled from Indonesia to Sumatra, where I had to keep running, but I could not run.’
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‘Indonesia was never in complete lockdown but you can’t even go from village to village so I was not able to even go to the airport.’
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Tomasz, whose own childhood was affected by trauma, will raise funds for UNICEFand document his journey instagram,
He plans to work with local communities and businesses to inform them about childhood trauma.
He said: ‘I’m not ready to break any world records. I am running with a message and building trauma-informed communities along the way of my running. Travel is rewarding in itself.
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