1077: Scott Miller - Mississippi Canoeing Speed Record Revisited
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Mississippi River Canoeing: Setting the Speed Record Down the Full Length – Inspirational Journey, Epic Stories, and What It Takes to Paddle America's Iconic River.
Journey back to 2023 with us as Scott Miller shares his inspirational story of setting the Mississippi canoeing speed record down the full length of the river. This was one of our more popular episodes, filled with really great stories about what it takes to canoe down America's iconic Mississippi.
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| 0:00.0 | We get two-thirds the way across it. |
| 0:09.0 | The wind kicks up. |
| 0:11.0 | We're all having a great time. |
| 0:12.0 | Suddenly no one is having fun. |
| 0:14.0 | Everyone is dialed in. |
| 0:15.0 | We got water coming over the gunnels into the boat. |
| 0:18.0 | And we start being like, why isn't the support boat by us? Well, he had a depth finder and he knew we were in shallow water so he couldn't get close to us. |
| 0:25.3 | And the water, the ice melted the day before. |
| 0:27.4 | So if we go in that lake, like, this is serious. |
| 0:30.7 | Episode 1077, Scott Miller setting the paddling record down the Mississippi River. |
| 0:37.1 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:48.0 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:50.9 | Hi friends. Thanks for joining us today. |
| 0:53.8 | As you probably have guessed, this is a revisited episode from a |
| 0:57.4 | couple of years ago, Mason is doing the interviewing and, you know, I love paddle sports. My son and I were |
| 1:04.1 | just in a canoe on a mountain lake a couple of days ago. I'm sure that you're going to enjoy this |
| 1:08.7 | episode. But before we dive into that, many of you know, |
| 1:12.6 | I've written a book called 99 Words, Building a Better Life. And I have been interviewing on other |
| 1:17.8 | podcasts for that book. From time to time, I'd like to share some of these podcasts with you in the way |
| 1:24.3 | of giving thanks to the host for having me on, but also if you're curious about |
| 1:29.3 | that project, then it lets you know where you can find more information. So today, the podcast |
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