An Arizona man is attempting to break the world record for longest distance traveled on a longboard. Jake Freed will be going 8,500 miles across the country; averaging up to 16 hours a day. The trip will kick off in Gilbert. From the Valley, he is heading to Florida, up to Ohio and then back to the Grand Canyon State. However, this isn’t Freed’s first long distance trip on a board. In 2013 he skated from Mesa to Washington, D.C. “I just wanted to see if I could do it,” Freed said.