Cannon Street Run 2015-All/As many ports poss. Fri 18th Sept

[DrainBrain]

Ahoy me hearties!!!!

Here be my proposed sailing schedule;
Sail from Cannon Street 0540
Dock at Pimlico 2358

Estimated length of voyage 18hrs 8mins

Avast yee!!!!!!

Well shiver me timbers. I do be sailing wary of an FNC on account as I couldn't navigate me way back to me central London port.

Perhaps I shall recheck me compass.

(i.e. I want to test myself with a solo challenge, but I'd really like to be on the 0540 too, to at least join you at the start.)

[RJSRdg]

Unfortunately I don't really consider myself "match fit" at the moment

[DrainBrain]

Right, I'm going to be on the 05:40, but still not convinced by my route

If only there was such a thing as the Night Tube!

[Going Underground]

Right, I'm going to be on the 05:40, but still not convinced by my route

If only there was such a thing as the Night Tube!

Arrrghhh see you at Cannon Street me heartie!

[nozzacook]

So far the going is rubbish 15 mins down and Kev is a phone down as well last seen heading to Dagenham.

[Going Underground]

We have aborted.... Final straw was fighting back and very confident of completing only to get to Woodford (Via Epping) and there are no loop trains all day from Woodford, only to Woodford via Hainault...

Nothing on engineering works or live updates on this

So we had to piss around going via Snaresbrook again, 13 min wait at Leytonstone for Woodford via Hainault, back via Snarebrook again!! The a lousy 15 min wait for LO at Leytonstone High Road...

Now over an hour down went phone searching (and around £50.00) but no joy

[nozzacook]

Post event Parkrun will be at burgess park and The Rockingham Arms (Spoons) for breakfast after.

[tractakid]

Sorry to heart that Kev, but enjoy Burgess, it's one of my favourite parkruns. It's where my fastest and slowest times are!

[Going Underground]

Sorry to heart that Kev, but enjoy Burgess, it's one of my favourite parkruns. It's where my fastest and slowest times are!

Thanks Andrew, will be very slow for me as carrying really sore hamstring which today hasn't helped...

[The Orange One]

Well, the extremely random stuff I did:

Cannon Street West Kensington Kensington Olympia Earl's Court HSK (by bus) Edgware Road Hammersmith Turnham Green Chiswick Park (by foot) Ealing Broadway Acton Main Line Acton Central Richmond Wimbledon West Brompton Willesden Junction Piccadilly Circus King's Cross St Pancras Bank Monument Great Portland Street.

That's 76. I then went home. Later on I did:

Warren Street Seven Sisters

Getting me 81, followed by:

Tottenham Town Hall Turnpike Lane King's Cross St Pancras Great Portland Street

Netting me 86/270.

As you can tell, I wasn't taking it that seriously after about Hammersmith...

[Going Underground]

I think our total was 117 (Nozza may want to check) I guess Nick is the last one still out there steering his flaghsip!

(Hakan aborted after around 200 stations)

[DrainBrain]

I had a pretty good day all in all. I think I did 212 stations total.

I planned forward to a bail-out station near my hotel, and backwards from the last train that went to my intended finish station; these two bits were 40 minutes adrift!

I went to most of the west half of the map first including Chesham and Heathrow, and everything was bang on plan. Then I had a lovely Loop and an epic Epping and somehow had found 30 minutes of the 40 on reaching the Overground link towards Walthamstow Central, and at this point I thought I might just make it.

Then I got to Finchley Central and just missed the Mill Hill East train. 11 minutes to the next one . Went up to HIgh Barnet where I just missed the 307 and I (sort of) quit at that point.

I went back to my hotel, but it was so dismal there that I went out for part 2! Did all the fiddly stuff around and just north of Stockwell, then down to Morden, across to Wimbledon and back up to Zone 1 for a few more stations, finishing at Barbican at about 10:45.