GRAYLING – The annual AuSable River Canoe Marathon was held the weekend of July 24-25, running from Grayling to Oscoda. A new first place record was established when Jorden Wakeley and Matt Meersman finished the course in 13 hours, 54 minutes, and nine seconds, breaking the previous record set back in 1994 by Serge Corbin and Solomon Carrière. Preceding the race itself is the AuSable River Festival, a series of competitions and events that includes sprint races, Paddle With a Professional, arts and craft shows, and much more.
~ Photos by Mark Constance
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- Traci Cook helps secure the beer tent, which was located in downtown Grayling.
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- The Grayling Knights of Columbus sponsored lunch and the awards ceremony at the Paddle With a Professional event. Grilling burgers were (l-r) Bob Breaugh, Mike Branch and Frank Senski.
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- Paddlers from across the nation attend the event. Pictured (l-r) are John Filler of Maryland, Chris Issendorf of Texas and Bill Torango of Roscommon, and Jerry (seated).
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- Sean Backus celebrates his successful race. Medals, shirts and hats were sponsored by Sylvester’s and Up North Voice.
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- It takes lots of volunteers to run the AuSable River Festival, including these ladies who helped at the AuSable River Festival beer tent (l-r) Rae, unk., Alayne, Linda, Hayley and Jeannie.
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- Multiple volunteers helped keep racers at the Special Olympics event safe.
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- Megan Money gets a good start in the Paddle with a Professional Special Olympics event.
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- Yvonne (left) and Olivia Schreiber of Grayling were responsible for entering data from the time trials on the web page. The trials were held at Penrod’s Canoe Livery in Grayling.
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