Longboarding Sweden?

I guess most of you once or twice heard of a group of people cycling or running across a country. You’ve heard they do it because they’re looking for a new challenge in sport, or/and they’re supporting a certain cause to make a better world. But how often do you hear of somebody longboarding across a whole a country?—not as often, I’m sure.

For all of you that might have a “no” as an answer to this question, or a “not as often”; and why not too, for the ones whom actually do have a “yes” for this question, I want to recommend you to check out this project from some European guys that decided to longboard a different country, every year, at the same time they create awareness regarding the problems prevailing in Zimbabwe—@run4zimbabwe.com.

If by any chance, when I started to talk about ‘longboarding’ you got lost somehow in the conversation, longboarding is an activity or sport involving riding a ‘longboard’, in this case a ‘street longboard’. And if you’re still a ‘lost cause’ at this point, a longboard is a sort of long skateboard, that due to its long size, it makes it more stable to ride, specially on longer rides.

Follow the guys from Run For Zimbabwe right now, as they’ve started their tour about a week ago. Their route began in the eastern coast of Sweden, Kappelskär, and will end in a western coast point, Varberg. They plan to longboard a distance of approximately 700 km in two weeks, from July 17th to August 1st, 2010.

The guys initiated this project last year. They wanted to combine the joy of longboarding and support a good cause. Last summer, they longboarded Ireland from south to north, and during their tour, created awareness for the young refugees in Zimbabwe.

This year they continue spreading the word in Sweden and also around the world with their website and other internet social networking places where you could follow their longboarding adventures:
@ R4Z official website
@ R4Z in facebook
@ R4Z in vimeo
@ R4Z in twitter

If you feel moved by their cause and feel like giving a little a bit to help the young refugees from Zimbabwe, you can buy a ‘R4Z t-shirt’ in their website. All the money from their t-shirt sale will go to the ‘Albert Street School project’ @the Elias Fund, a non-lucrative organization whom mission is to spread hope and opportunity in Zimbabwe through indigenous empowerment.

When you visit Run For Zimbabwe’s website, give me a ‘cyber buzz’ in here and tell me what do you think about the design on the website [yep, as you probably figured out by now, I designed and programmed it].

★ Photos were taken by the Run For Zimbabwe crew [2008-2009] and collage was design by me.