The Alabama 650 paddle race has come to an end as paddlers from across the country competed in different categories.

From north Alabama through Montgomery, and finally to the coast of Fort Morgan, the race took competitors about 650 miles through the Alabama Scenic River Trail.

“This race doesn’t like to give you anything. When you think you’re in the clear, you just never are,” says paddler Bobby Johnson.

The overall winners of both the race and the tandem team category were Bobby Johnson and his tandem team partner Matt Taylor. The duo finished in an astonishing in 5 days, 9 hours, and 3 minutes.

Taylor is a local, living in the Crenshaw County city of Brantley, Alabama.

“I’ve always been a kayaker, I’ve always paddled a lot, just rivers. And believe it or not, I saw a video online

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