This Kansas City couple bonds over racing the MR340 every year

Courtney and Phil Wasson are not professional boat racers, but for several years the duo has competed together in the MR340, the world’s longest non-stop river race. It begins in Kansas City and goes for 340 miles down the Missouri River.
The MR340 is the longest non-stop river race in the world. You heard that right: non-stop. Every August, hundreds of boats start on the Missouri River at Kansas City's Kaw Point and, if they finish, end 340 miles away in St. Charles.

“There's beautiful things along the river, moments where it starts to be dusk and the swallows are flying," Courtney Wasson, a Kansas City resident and racer, told KCUR's Up To Date.

Wasson and her husband, Phil, have competed in the MR340 as a husband-wife duo since 2018. Their team name is "Strangers in the Night."