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May 14, 2021 By Frank McCormack
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.