Paddling: Who Was That Fast Man?
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Outside magazine, November 1995
Paddling: Who Was That Fast Man? At the start of the 715-mile Finlandia Clean Water Challenge, the world’s longest kayak race, South African Lee McGregor paddled into Lake Michigan from the Chicago shore at sprint pace. Given that the 43-year-old McGregor was both an unknown and the oldest participant in the field of 17, few took his fast and furious takeoff very seriously. They should have. Beginning with the |