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原文传递 Pair Of Canoe Teams Vie For Mississippi River Record

题名：	Pair Of Canoe Teams Vie For Mississippi River Record
正文语种：	eng
作者：	FRANK MCCORMACK
摘要：	Call it the Great Canoe Race. This month, two canoe teams, each made up of four paddlers, have been vying to break a long-standing Guinness World Record for "fastest time to row the length of the Mississippi River by a team." One team, aptly named MMZero, has already finished the course from Lake Itasca, Minn., to Head of Passes, just south of Venice, La. MMZero set out from the headwaters of the Mississippi River on April 22 and finished at Mile zero on May 10. Total time elapsed was 17 days and 20 hours, eclipsing the record set in May 2003 by more than eight hours. MMZero is made up of a father-daughter pair in KJ Millhone and Casey, his daughter, along with Bobby Johnson and Rod Price. KJ Millhone, age 62, previously set the same world record in 1980, when he canoed the river with the late Steve Eckelkamp. The old record Millhone and Eckelkamp set was 35 days, 11 hours and 27 minutes. Casey Millhone is a 20-year-old sociology student at Colorado College. Johnson is a 42-year-old veteran of competitive canoeing, as is Price, age 60. And while MMZero is celebrating its new record-and resting from the near 18 straight days of paddling around the clock-the foursome will be tracking another team coming down the river that's going by the name Mississippi Speed Record (MSR).
出版年：	2021
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	135
期：	7