Paris Metro : New record

geofftech · Post by **geofftech** » 09 May 2005, 10:58

Someone's gone and done it in 9 hours, 53 minutes. You'll need to be good at French though! I can just about cobble together the first paragraph. Full translation, anyone?

http://l-homme.net/runderground/

rangzen · Post by **rangzen** » 09 May 2005, 12:08

Hi i'm for the team who beat the Paris Record.
We are writing the "complete story", i can try to translate it if someone have an interest.
Write here if you have some question

lazza747 · Post by **lazza747** » 09 May 2005, 20:46

My French friend is currently translating your entire page. I'll have the English version shortly.

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 09 May 2005, 21:02

I would have had a go, but I'm busy preparing for a French exam in a couple of days.

lazza747 · Post by **lazza747** » 09 May 2005, 22:34

I now have the correct English translation thanks to my French friend, Helene.

Sadly, I can't let you see it because I believe in striving to attain that which you desire by working for it and not by being handed it on a plate (he said, giving it to his friend to do for him *ahem*)

geofftech · Post by **geofftech** » 09 May 2005, 23:28

You could at least summate for us Neil! just a paragraph or two...

CrunchySaviour · Post by **CrunchySaviour** » 10 May 2005, 01:42

I'll get my girlfriend to do it, you stingy bastards!

Yorkie · Post by **Yorkie** » 10 May 2005, 04:02

http://www.google.com/translate?u=http% ... en&ie=UTF8

rangzen · Post by **rangzen** » 10 May 2005, 07:58

Cool ! A lot of people

What are you thinking of the name "runderground" ?

Do you have some special needs for a computer program wich can help us to beat records ? I started a computer challenge for 2 programs, 1 for calcul and 1 for visualisation, and i will pay 1 tshirt of their choice to each winner

Adham · Post by **Adham** » 10 May 2005, 14:39

From what I gather, this record seems to be of the Metro stations within the Paris boundary only. Is this correct? And if so, is it actually an official record? Because surely all Metro stations must be visited. I'm sure the whole system could not be done in a sub-10 hour time, because it is huge and has more than 300 stations.

rangzen · Post by **rangzen** » 10 May 2005, 14:46

"Metro stations within the Paris boundary only" : yes
There is no "official record", this was done afaik only one time before in 12+ hours for the same boundary only run.

I'm also sure that the whole system can't be done under ... maybe ... 13+ hours ... cause you have to go in the end of somes lines and you loose a lot of shorcuts where you can run or take a bus instead of come back to take a change.

The whole system is not funny, the "boundary only" : yes cause you can try some tricks.

joy54 · Post by **joy54** » 10 May 2005, 16:18

There is an official record for Moscow and I think Paris too. Moscow I remember was held by two British people. But I can't remember about Paris.

kizzers · Post by **kizzers** » 24 Jun 2005, 22:28

geofftech · Post by **geofftech** » 25 Jun 2005, 13:41

There are more stations (369), but it is also more condensed (i.e. less spread out) than London.

There IS an 'unofficial' record for doing the whole thing: 14 hours 54 minutes and 18 seconds, which is detailed at the following website:

http://www.metrochallenge.tk/

kizzers · Post by **kizzers** » 25 Jun 2005, 23:30

Anybody here done it/want to do it?

tubechallenge.com

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