Brett Sobieraski has run 50 marathons in 50 days to honor the memory of his fallen colleague Anthony Mazurkiewicz and raise money for his family.
In an enormous feat, 57-year-old
Earlier this spring, Mazurkiewicz's former colleague Sgt. Brett Sobieraski decided to honor his fallen colleague and raise money for his family by doing what seemed like the impossible: running one marathon a day for almost two months along the east coast. Prior to this, Tony's wife had never met Sobieraski, but she had heard about him from her husband. “Tony would say that guy is crazy and he’d tell me stories about what Brett was doing after he retired ... Brett is swimming across Lake Ontario,” Lynn Mazurkiewicz said. “He’s the kindest man, genuinely. But he’s crazy ... Nobody does that,” she said of Sobieraski's marathon journey.
Despite his ultra-marathoner status, Sobieraski says he was never particularly athletic, especially when he was younger."I smoked for 16 years — a couple of packs of cigarettes a day — and I was in very poor health," says Sobieraski. The 50-marathon journey had its ups and downs, Sobieraski explains."Some nights I went to bed and I wasn't sure how I was going to run the next day ... but I knew I could never quit, quitting was never an option," he said.
Recounting stories of people who donated along the way, Sobieraski highlights one in particular that stuck in his mind."There was a waitress in Elkins, Virginia ... she was actually the waitress, the owner, and the cashier of this all-you-can-eat buffet ... and when she asked us what we were doing there and I told her, she gave us all the tips she had earned that day," says Sobieraski.
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