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VICTORY SMILE – Winning paddlers Jake Paleczny, Karen Mann, Alex Jessup and Rob Spinks, left to right, smile for the camera after finishing the Chilli and Bean race last week. Photo by PATRICIA MCKENNA
Jessup, Spinks set the pace in Chilli and Bean
Last week’s Chilli and Bean Race from Rotary Park to the Tahkini River Bridge went down to the wire.
Last week’s Chilli and Bean Race from Rotary Park to the Tahkini River Bridge went down to the wire.
After 18.5 kilometres of paddling, Alex Jessup and Rob Spinks posted a time or one hour and 26 minutes, just one minute ahead of second-place paddlers Karen Mann and Jake Paleczny.
Solo canoeist Tim Hodgson wasn’t far behind, finishing in third overall with a time of 1:28.
The Paddler’s Abreast voyageur team finished fourth in 1:37, two minutes ahead of the Team Mooney voyageur paddlers that included four generations of Mooneys including Stephen Mooney, captain of the boat and a regular top contender in the Yukon River Quest.
But it was patriarch Frank Mooney still calling the shots.
Solo canoeist Alison Schreiber was sixth in 1:41. Emily Hoefs and Bob Yonker landed their canoe in 1:56 and Hanne Hoefs and Manfred Hoefs finished in 2:21.
The entire field of paddlers were treated to, what else, hot chilli and baked beans with all the fixings.
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