A runner is preparing to run 40,000km around the world to raise money for charity.
Polish ultra-runner Tomasz Drybala, 44, who has lived in London for 21 years, plans to spend more than three years running around the world in stages: from London to Athens; from Cairo to Kuwait City; from Indonesia up through South East Asia to Hong Kong; then from the West to the East coast of the US, starting in Los Angeles and finishing in New York.
Tomasz will travel between each stage by air, and has planned regular trips back to London in order to see his two sons.
He will fund his journey through savings, sponsorship and will continue to work as a keynote speaker.
He explained: ‘We will have lots of equipment behind us and between stages (Europe-Arabia, Arabia-Asia, Asia-US) we have up to four weeks break.
‘It’s not a continuous run. It’s impossible to do it that way. We need time to reorganize …