In an interview with Poland's PAP news agency, the 27-year-old said the run is meant to mark the 250th anniversary of US independence, celebrated in 2026.
He plans to start on May 15 on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge in California, then complete a marathon a day while traveling state to state with a support team in a camper van, including runs in Alaska and Hawaii.
He said the challenge would be a “logistical nightmare.”
If successful, Sobania would become the second person ever to complete the feat, after American ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes, who did it in 2006 and whom Sobania calls his idol.
Sobania said he has spent the past six months on physical and organizational preparations.
He said his goal is to motivate others to "get off the sofa" - become active and take charge of their lives.
"I have a chance to do something that only one person in the world has done, a legend of ultramarathons,” he said. “For me it’s the best example that each of us can do more than we think is possible.”
Sobania has built a profile in Poland through a series of long-distance runs.
In March last year, he completed a run across the United States, setting off from Central Park in New York City on September 15 and finishing nearly five months later in San Diego.
He said he ran 125 marathons, covering more than 5,250 kilometers in 139 days, and described himself as the first Pole to finish such a crossing.
Tomasz Sobania (left). Photo: PAP/Marcin Cholewiński
Earlier challenges included a daily marathon run from Chorzów in southern Poland to Marathon in Greece and back in 2023, a 60-day run in 2022 from the Piast Gliwice stadium in southern Poland to Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium, and a run to Rome the year before, when he also raised funds for a girl with cancer, and attended a papal audience.
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Source: PAP