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Looking for realistic appearance and life-like action? You can't come any closer to the real thing than ABT's new Banshee Swimbait. This new narrow-profile, 4-1/2-inch jointed hardbait is available in a variety of "Natural Image Transfer" finishes that perfectly replicate the colors and patterns of actual forage fish. Even more impressive is the way this lure swims. Thanks to its four jointed sections and unique design, you can fish the Banshee anywhere in the water column, at any speed, and it will deliver the same incredible "undulating" action. Steel hinges, instead of plastic, ensure unsurpassed durability.
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"There isn't a single body of water on the Elite Series schedule where I won't be putting these lures to work - they're that versatile and effective ... the new Banshee Swimbait is so life-like, whenever I pick one up, I keep expecting it to flop out of my hands ... The combination of the detailed 'natural image transfer' patterns and the amazing swimming action makes the Banshee hard for bass to resist. I'm also blown away by its versatility. You can fish it fast or slow, down deep, or in the middle of the water column - even topwater - and you'll experience the same deadly results." - Grant Goldbeck, veteran Bassmaster Elite Series angler.
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Comments: Great for muskies! Bought 4 inch and 6 inch. 4in weighs more like 1/4-3/8 ounce. 6in weighs more like 1/2-3/4 ounce. Great action but very light. Better to use a MH spinning rod. Cant really use a bait caster. It will spin out. Needs more weight on the tail end. Handle 28-39 inch muskies, 6-20 pounders. Cant say I didn't catch any big fish with this lure! Tight Lines!
From: Olson: NM 9/28/14
Comments: Definitely add this to your swimbait collection. Great action, casts fantastic. It seems really durable so far too. No giants have offered at it yet. But i feel its only a matter of time. Ton of follow ups and swipes.
From: Nick: Speedway, IN 5/30/14
Comments: This is a good swimbait esp for the price. Do not try and throw this on something like a big swimbait rod w/ 25# line and wonder why it casts short. The 8'' has good drawl. I fish it on a medium heavy crankbait rod (let the rod load) with a lob cast like mentioned many times previously. It can make some bomb casts. It's not the best casting towards heavy wind. I'd go with a good 17# floro and make sure you tie a good knot. The patterns are good and it's swims great. I'd say it shines best in the recovered post spawn period into fall transition. Match your hatch and fish with confidence!
From: Ryan: Seattle, WA.
Comments: good action catches fish. i got the 6 inch midnight shad and it is a darker color and has a black back. casting is dificult but when i side cast it fine. the only problem realy is the hooks. my first time using it after a few casts and fish i got a fouer pounder to bite but the hooks bent andt it got of at the boat
From: Robert: MA
Comments: Just a bit difficult to cast smoothly, but looks real good and great swimming motion in the water. Just a word of precaution though, I picked up the threadfin shad color and it was a lot darker than it appeared in the picture.
From: Fishinfolks
Comments: This thing does cast terrible. get the jackall instead
From: Kyle: CA
Comments: I agree with most of the other comments, this lure looks really good in the water, but it is hard to cast due to the whole helicopter effect and it lands in the water like a ton of bricks.
From: Jason: Pennington Gap, VA
Comments: This thing is junk! Casts like crap and feels super cheap. Looks ok swimming, I'll give it that much. Don't waste your money. Go with a BBZ instead.
From: FANTASTIC!: ME
Comments: This thing flat out catches fish. It doesn't have a weight transfer system, so casting with the wind is strongly recommended. For early Spring and late Fall, swim it slow along cover and get ready for the slam dunk!
From: Daniel: Spokane, WA
Comments: After fishing this for several hours there is really something wrong with the weight mechanism, I think it's too light, causing it to helicopter 90% of the time. It also effects the casting distance which is mediocre at best. The realism in the water is EXCELLENT, so no complaints on the actual profile. It's just that this needs to be modified or used in another way, maybe something like the longest trailer on a umbrella rig! That way you get the cast distance from weight, it will look like it's chasing school fish, etc. and it will allow you to fully customize the rig to your liking in addition to having this realistic swimbait!
From: Lamar: Wake Forest, NC
Comments: Just got mine in the mail today, looks great, can't wait to get this thing in the water!!! I will post a review later once I get a couple fish and see how it casts, etc.
From: Lamar: Wake Forest, NC
Comments: I've had a selection of the 6" and 8"ers in my box for the first part of this year. I've had the local tiger muskies follow this lure like crazy, but they won't commit. Yesterday a buddy and myself tried a less pressured lake, and they were all over the 6" rainbow pattern. I only had the one in that size and pattern, so my buddy was out of luck. He tried a lot of other lures, and caught 1 musky to my 4. No problems casting it either. Great lure for sure.... I'll be ordering more!
From: Fred: SLC, UT
Comments: Great swim bait....I like to stroke this one, meaning I crank the reel a couple of times, then pop the rod, letting it flutter back down like a wounded baby bass. Just kills em....and it will cast bad if you throw it on a traditional swimbait rod, just throw it on your regular worm baitcasting rod
From: Andrew: San Antonio, TX
Comments: This bait looks good as far as action in the water is concerned. However, it cast's horrible. I think it is because the bait is so flat that it catches a lot of resistance when thrown. When I cast it, the bait helicopters and creates a very short casting distance. I will never buy another one.
From: Mike: Evans, GA
Comments: best swimbait ive ever used hands down action is amazing definetly will be buying more and i have no problem casting these and i through mine i dont know why people say they cast bad
From: Zach: PA
Comments: Very Good swimbait, swims great! You can do alot with it. Use light line with smallest version. I like the bait, only wish they could upgrade it with weight without effecting the action of bait. It works! Plan to use it this summer for largemouth bass. Action is top but needs the right line. Needs an upgrade with weight so it can be casted far and more colors. Its good!!!
From: Alex: Kansas
Comments: This swimbait has an awesome swimming action. You can jerk it, swim it, twich it, burn it, walk it. No kidding. I have the 4" and the 6". Have caught several stripers on it on the delta. I don't really have a casting problem with this bait unless I'm casting into the wind. I use a powell 733 rod with 15-17 lb mono or even 50 lb braid with a Shimano Citica 201e or Curado 101b reel. No problems. You just have to side cast if you want distance. Don't use overhanded casts and throw rainbows, it will helicopter and you will get 10 ft with a bird's nest. Learn to side cast and you'll be fine with a baitcaster setup. On the other hand, I'm not too thrilled on the "realistic" paint job. I prefer traditional colors.
From: Chris: Ca Delta
Comments: 6 inch and 8 inch models casts over 40 yards on 20 lb Trilene Big Game on spincasting gear- no problem. Caught over 40 stripers dowrigging the 6 and 8 inch model in one day to 13 pounds plus- smokin the other guys bait and plugs at San Luis! I find Guys having casting issues are using wrong setups . Run straight even at high speed -4 mph . Got 10 stripers in 20 lb range casting and ripping 6 inch chartreuse shad this year. best new striper lure period
From: Dale: Madera, CA
Comments: 4in in threadin, 6 in trout, took these babies out to the delta, lost a few big stripes on the 6, haven't landed one yet, caught a 5lb large on the 4in, but it broke the tail off, only fish I've caught on these, they are hard to cast, prepare for a lot of line twist, they tend to spin in the cast, otherwise, good action, with a little twitch, you can walk them, these are good lures under $15
From: PitchingSenkos: Sacramento
Comments: Purchased 4 of these. They have great action but hard to cast. Even with this great action have not caught a fish on any of the baits.
From: Mike: TN
Comments: Awesome action....beats the Spro any day. When I first got this bait it looked like a piece of junk....quickly changed my mind after I saw it in the water...get one!
From: Daniel: NC
Comments: Yea there a little hard to cast but there worth it the action alone is amazing!!! Casts great with a spinning rod. But i still get it done with a Baitcaster Try a side sweep cast it helps
From: Sonny: East Wareham, MA
Comments: If you having casting problems, use a medium action rod, not your typical swimbait rod. I use a 7' medium action veritas with 15lb PLine Fluoroclear and it casts great. I get helicoptering once in a while but most often I am getting 75'+ casts. I swim it, rip it, twitch it, dead stick it and burn it (not all at once) and the fish just flat out KILL this bait! I love it!
From: Jared: SC, USA
Comments: Bass,striper killer! Buddy got 28lb striper shore fishing! Right setup key on light 1/2 oz. jointed bait to decent casting-like River2sea bait too. Best action on planet. Got first new 6 inch 1.5 oz. models at ICAST-already 3 stripers 12-17 lbs - inhaled it! Awesome mind blower action!. Killing bass too! ABT says out this month.
From: George: Madera, CA
Comments: I ordered 3 of these and have used only one of these so far. It goes have great swimming action and looks great in the water. It is a little hard to cast with a baitcaster, cast mush better with a spinning reel. The only complaint I have is the tail section came off and now I have a useless swimbait since the tail section sunk after only being used for the second time.. I may try to rig something and experiment with what I have left.
From: Jeff: Toccoa, GA
Comments: Casts like junk but PHENOMENAL action. I wish ABT made it in a silent version. For clear water applications, the action is great, but personally feel the sound is a turn off.
From: Tony: North East GA
Comments: awesome bait, caught fish today on it while using it for the first time.
From: Chris: Escondido, CA
Comments: great little swimbait
From: Zack: Wis
Comments: I own lots of hard swimbaits. This one casts poorly, but the swimming action is great. I think the best application for it will be pitching around docks. Love the size. Paint job is average, try to make it lifelike and I think impressionistic is better, color is more important. I believe if they made the tail out of a soft plastic, the helicopter issue would go away and you could make casts twice as long.
From: Scott: Buford, GA
Comments: I bought one of this swimbaits and tried it out, I see what some people are saying about the casting problem. I was using a Curado 200E5 and 10lbs. line, still can't get a lot of distance on it because it just hits the air and it helicopters really bad on each and every cast, I will try and change the front hook for a heavier one or even add lead to it and see if it improves but other than that is a very good swimbait.
From: Charlie: Trenton, NJ
Comments: Simply the finest swimbait I've ever fished. I had no problem casting the smaller 4 1/2" size on 12 lb. test, but for anyone wanting a larger/heavier version, there's now a new 6" size. ABT's Banshees have the most natural swimming action I've seen in a jointed harbait...they look exactly like real baitfish too. Awesome!
From: Mark: Mission Viejo, CA
Comments: Not sure why people are having problems throwing this bait. My only guess is that its due to operator error or a dirty reel. I throw this on a 7' M Veritas and a Revo SX with 15lb PLine and it casts beautifully. Today alone I caught two fish that were close to 7lbs on it. These baits are awesome! I will be buying more for sure!
From: Jared: SC
Comments: looks great, swims great, casts like JUNK!!!
From: Jeff: MA
Comments: great bait! will buy more of it! hooks need to be replaced. not that strong after 5 fish
From: Riches: Fresno, CA
Comments: Yes-It's a very light swimbait, but a real fish catcher with incredible swimming action! I found casting the bait with a soft underhanded toss solved the distance issue. Hard "pushing"casts can make it tumble at times. ABT says new heavier, castable, 6 incher on the way. An awesome unique bait , any way you cut it!
From: Dale: Fresno, CA
Comments: Great Bait! To others with casting problems try lighter line. I went out with this bait to the delta and came across a striper boil. My friend was throwing a spro bbz 1 and for every one fish he caught I caught 3-4. This bait is sick you can dead stick it and stripers will enhale this thing. Great bait will buy more.
From: Riches: Fresno, CA
Comments: I have to agree with the comments about the difficulty of throwing this bait with bait caster setup. It swam fine once in the water.
From: Phillip: MN
Comments: I have had a real hard time casting this bait with distance. It wants to spin like crazy and i would like to see a heavier size that will cast longer. Used there set up of 12 lb line and 7ft med casting rod and still same result..bait looks good in the water and swims great.
From: Rick: Gainesville, GA
Comments: AWESOME!!!! This bait gets destroyed!! First day of using it , I got lit up on by seven northern pike, and a few bass, love this bait killer swimming action!!!
From: Mrbond007: East Lansing, MI
Comments: I just bought a few of these little guys (in 3 different patterns)... On my first trip out, the other day, I threw the rainbow trout pattern a bit, and did get a little, 13 in. Largemouth on it... Sure, it was tiny, but I've caught nothing on other lures that I've thrown for years... Maybe it was a fluke, but I doubt it... It's a good looking bait, and swims nicely...
From: Dave: Bay Area, CA
Comments: This swimbait flat out catches fish. Just throw it out there and slow reel it over windy points.
From: Marquel: Upland, CA
Comments: I've used the Banshee trolling for stripers in Central California and have caught over a hundred fish on it in the 2 to 15 pound category-with many 9 to 12 pound fish. The perch pattern has been the best for some reason. It's been a killer bait! Can't wait for the 6 incher.
From: Dale: Fresno, CA


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CELINA, Ohio — A household in this city along the shores of Grand Lake St. Marys pays about $91 for the same amount of electricity that costs about $153 in rural parts of Butler County, about 80 miles south.
The gap is the result of an Ohio electricity system whose inequity is stark but whose details are not widely known or understood.
Among the 52 largest electricity utilities, Celina, in northwestern Ohio, has the lowest rates;
several rural electricity cooperatives are among the highest. This is based on a comparison of the
total bill for a house using 1,000 kilowatt-hours in January.
In central Ohio, Westerville's city-owned utility has the lowest rates and Dayton Power & Light has the highest.
The Dispatch obtained rate information for electricity utilities that together serve 98 percent of the state's households, showing who pays the most, who pays the least and whose costs have been the most volatile. The list is a snapshot of a time when clean-air rules are making it more expensive to turn on the lights and when deregulation is making prices less predictable.
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ask informed questions of utility managers.
In some parts of Ohio, people on the same road can experience drastic price differences. For example, the area just west of Celina is served by DP&L, which has a standard rate that is 60 percent more expensive than the one in Celina.
But even people with low rates feel a sting when they write that check each month.
"We're just like everyone else," said Dennis Howick, a farmer served by Celina's utility. He was eating lunch at the Fountain Restaurant, just off Main Street. "We groan and gripe when we get a big electric bill."
Many utility executives were wary of disclosing their rates for this story. They said the cost of service is closely tied to terrain and usage patterns that cannot be explained by one number. After repeated inquiries, all utilities with at least 4,000 households provided the information, except one: Hancock-Wood Electric Cooperative in the northwestern part of the state.
Bernadette Unger, a yoga teacher in Butler County, did not know her utility is among the most expensive. But she gives Butler Rural Electric Cooperative high marks for customer service. It serves 10,833 households in a territory northwest of Cincinnati.
"I think they do a great job for me," she said. "They're very personable."
High rates can act as a damper on the local economy and discourage businesses from moving to an area, said Sam Randazzo, attorney for Industrial Energy Users-Ohio.
"For a large steel manufacturer, a 10th of a cent of a difference in the (electricity rate) can be a million dollars or more per year," he said. "So when you see the range of rates, minor differences can cause people to make extraordinary selections."
While businesses do their homework before picking a location, residents often have little understanding of their rates.
"Nobody pays attention" to the details of electricity rates, said Jim Lazar, an electricity consultant in Washington state who does work across the country. "The electric bill is not a big part of people's lives."
And yet, the costs add up to some big numbers. Ohio residents spent $6.1 billion on home electricity in 2012, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Is it fair that some households pay so much more than others?
"Questions of equity are best posed to priests, philosophers and politicians," Lazar said, later adding, "It certainly seems unfair."
There is no easy way to change the situation if you are served by a utility that has high rates or unresponsive service.
In Boulder, Colo., voters have approved forming a city-owned utility, and officials are researching whether this would be financially feasible, according to the city's website. Supporters of the switch want more local control and more use of renewable energy, among other changes.
The opposite is happening in Vero Beach, Fla., where residents voted this month to sell the city's electricity utility to Florida Power & Light. This is largely a response to high city rates, according to local media reports.
There is nothing quite like either situation in Ohio.
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About 80 percent of the state's households are served by four investor-owned companies: American Electric Power, FirstEnergy, Duke Energy and DP&L. In this group, DP&L and AEP have the highest rates.
For AEP, this is a contrast from a decade ago when the Columbus-based utility had some of the lowest rates in the state and country. Prices have risen because of environmental rules, maintenance costs and a series of new charges approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
FirstEnergy and Duke customers have seen their bills decrease in recent years because the companies adopted rates that are tied to the market price of electricity and the market price has been low. AEP and DP&L have both begun a multiyear transition to market prices.
One caveat on prices from investor-owned utilities: Their customers can choose a supplier for the electricity generation portion of the bill, which can lead to possible savings off of the standard prices listed here. The standard price is the one you receive if you do not choose a different supplier.
Before Duke's standard price dropped, it had risen steadily for several years. This combination of ups and downs made Duke's prices the most-volatile in the state from 2005 to 2011, varying by an average of about 10 percent each year, based on an analysis of Energy Information Administration data. The least volatile has been Cleveland's city-owned utility, which varied an average of less than 1 percent.
Beyond the large, publicly traded companies is a diverse group of smaller utilities. They fall into two categories:
Rural electricity cooperatives: These nonprofit, member-owned companies came together decades ago to provide electricity to rural areas that the investor-owned utilities didn't want to serve, and now they account for about 10 percent of the state's households. They have the lowest population density and some of the highest rates.
Municipal utilities: About 10 percent of households live in a city or village where the electric utility is owned by the local government. Publicly owned utilities have some of the lowest rates because they have the highest density and no need to pay dividends to shareholders.
The smaller utilities are not regulated by the state. If you have a complaint, you need to go to your city council or the rural electricity-cooperative management. At the same time, a smaller utility often has more personal service, customers say. If you're upset about something, it's easy to get the mayor or CEO on the phone.
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A map of Ohio electricity-utility service territories looks like a collection of paint splatters. Most of the companies serve noncontiguous areas, with islands of customers connected by power lines that run through a different utility's territory.
The boundaries are the result of more than a century of development and mergers. Publicly traded
companies spread out to cover the largest cities, which were the most profitable to serve. To
connect the cities, the companies also covered some of the rural areas in between.
"It's no different from drawing political lines, really, like gerrymandering," said David Bellman, an independent energy analyst based in Columbus.
Many local governments started nonprofit electricity companies that served customers only within the municipal borders.
While urban areas received electricity, most of the state's rural territory remained in the dark because it was the least profitable to serve. This began to change with the Depression-area Rural Electrification Act. Farmers used federal aid to set up member-owned cooperatives to provide the service.
"We're serving the areas nobody else would serve 75 years ago," said John Metcalf, CEO of Mid-Ohio Energy Cooperative in Kenton. "When we came into existence, only 10 percent of the farms had power."
The state has a total of 115 electricity utilities. Those not included in this report are all small municipal or cooperative utilities — down to the smallest, the village of Custar, southwest of Bowling Green, which had 104 households in 2011.
Looking across the country, the states with the fewest utilities tend to be dominated by a few investor-owned companies, and those with the most utilities have a high number of city-owned providers.
In Washington, D.C., everyone is served by the same company. In Iowa, the heartland of municipal utilities, there are 182 providers. Texas has the most utilities, with 200, but its system is unique because it puts unregulated power companies on the same list as utilities.
Columbus' municipal utility, which serves more than 9,300 households, mostly in the city's older neighborhoods, is the state's most-expensive municipal system at an average $119.50 a month. Looking at the full list of Ohio electricity utilities, though, Columbus is right below the median, which is about $120. Columbus is also less expensive than the standard rate for AEP, the utility that serves most households in the city.
Most of Ohio's municipal utilities are members of American Municipal Power, a Columbus-based company that manages energy purchases. AMP encouraged its members to buy shares in several new power plants, including the Prairie State Energy Campus in southwestern Illinois. The project has suffered mechanical problems and budget overruns. They could contribute to future rate increases in the communities that bought into it, including Galion, Cleveland, Hamilton and dozens of others. Columbus' and Westerville's utilities did not buy into the plant.
Celina, which owns a small share of Prairie State, has kept its rates low by carefully managing its expenses and because it has a large industrial base for a city its size, said Mayor Jeffrey Hazel. But he gets more complaints about rates than pats on the back.
"The majority of people, just by human nature, don't look outside themselves," he said. "It would be rare for someone from Celina to go outside the city to see what other people pay."


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The Great Dying
I. A Time of Death and Desolation
If that title sounds dire it is because it was indeed a grim time for life on Earth. Occurring about 252 and one-third million years ago, the mass extinction came at a time when life on Earth had become fairly advanced. Terrestrial life consisted of a rich mix of large amphibians (think huge cousins of today's salamanders) and scaly reptilian dinosaur predecessors. The seas teemed with life.
Then some sort of cataclysm swept the globe. Ninety-six out of every one-hundred marine species (96%) went exinct, while seventy out of every one-hundred terrestrial vertebrate species (70%) also bit the metaphorical dust. The exinction to this day remains the most severe mass extinction in Earth's history and what is believed to be the only mass extinction to feature a major extinction of insects -- traditionally among the Earth's most hardy species.
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has become the latest researcher to throw his hat in the paleontological ring, offering up an interesting alternate hypothesis of how such a catastrophic climate change incident may have been triggered, leading to the Earth losing so much biodiversity.
The Great Dying marked the edge of the Permian. Its end ushered in a new era -- the Triassic -- which would become the first of three major historical eras when the land-masses were ruled by large reptiles (dinosaurs).
To look for clues as to what caused The Great Dying, Professor Rothman dug back into sediments from the end of the Permian era. Examing deposits in China, he found something intriguing.
Carbon levels in the sediment indeed appeared to rise quickly. But the interesting part is that they rose so quickly that he feels that the sedimentary analysis rules out change by slower-acting forms of carbon release, such as volcanoes.
He also observed that oceanic nickel levels spiked 251 million years ago, as volcanoes in Siberia dumped tons of molten nickel into the sea.
II. What Caused Carbon Levels to Spike?
Nickel is a ubiquitous catalyst in certain kinds of biochemical reactions. Microorganisms, such as the ocean-based methane-producing bacterium methanosarcina, often use the metal to speed up reactions that produce carbon waste byproducts.
Thus Professor Rothman suggests that methanosarcina likely exploited the rising nickel levels to transform carbon dioxide and hydrogen into methane.
In fact, Professor Rothman believes that methanosarcina fortuitously acquired the its triple metal-catalyzed methane-producing metabolic pathways about 251 million years ago, just as the nickel levels spiked.
Methanosarcina, pictured in an electron micrograph. [Image Source: KRLE]
The loss of atmospheric carbon dioxide would likely have twin adverse impacts -- first as plants require carbon dioxide to produce sugars, there likely would be mass loss of foliage globally; second as methane is a more potent warming gas than carbon dioxide, temperatures likely would have spiked globally.
The researcher's hypothesis was
set forth
on Dec. 4 at
the annual meeting
of the
American Geophysical Union
. The meeting was held in San Francisco, Calif. at the Moscone Convention Center.
If he is correct it suggests that methanosarcina could be the most diabolical murderer in history, by far eclipsing mankind's
worst impact in terms of speciation
Not all experts are convinced. Anthony Cohen, a researcher at the Open University in the United Kingdom, comments, '"[For the hypothesis to be correct] there are a lot of assumptions you have to make."
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (181 votes).
In short: First time I had ever entered a 10 mile race not an easy course but I did it , lots of encouragement from all the Marshalls .Will do it again next year . Date of review: September 10, 2012
In short: Tough in places but fair - lots of tradition andgreat atmosphere at the endDate of review: September 8, 2012
In short: Tough might just be the word. In full: A great race, it's very undulating but with a very welcome downhill finish. My first time at this one and I was nervous at its "Tough Ten" name, it was tough, a challenge for me but I thoroughly enjoyed it (once I'd finished) Great Organisation, plenty of water stations and Marshalls were brilliant, cheering you on through the hard bits. As I crossed the line I said I'd never run it again, but I would. Great finishers T shirt too, long sleeved ready for the dreaded winter runs. Date of review: September 8, 2012
In short: Will deffo be back next year!!!Date of review: September 8, 2012
In short: Well organised event, well marshalled, itis tough but well worth the run for the atmosphere with brilliant sceneryw will definately do it againnDate of review: September 7, 2012
In short: one of the best organised events in Lincolnshire, a favouriteDate of review: September 6, 2012
In short: One of my yearly favouritesIn full: Through the beautifull Lincolnshire Wolds, a challenging run, with the wonderful support of a local running club makes this run one of my favourites.Date of review: September 5, 2012
In short: Excellent race, really well organised and marshalled. For everyone who thinks Lincolnshire is completely flat-come and have a go at this raceDate of review: September 5, 2012
In short: Excellent race well organised enjoyed everything about the raceDate of review: September 4, 2012
In short: My first time. Well organised. Would definitely try next year to improve time.Date of review: September 4, 2012
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