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A Painfully Slow Bayview-Mac

Sometimes Aeolus is kind. Sometimes he’s not. But rarely is the ancient Greek “keeper of the winds” as entirely absent as he was for much of this year’s Bell’s Beer Bayview Mackinac Race.

How slow was the 2018 running of the 94-year-old

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