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tufnellpark wrote: ↑31 May 2018, 16:00 I'll bring along my Underground board game for its first outing. Start at 17:00 in pub and I will need five players. Any volunteers?

Count me in!

A bit of shame as I would have liked to have been there for at least one of the two events but unfortunately University work is preventing me from doing so.

All going well, the flight I'm on should be landing at LHR at 9:20 so I'll have plenty of time to make it to the start!

Edit: flight has been delayed slightly

Well that was an interesting day the starting station drawn out was CHANCERY LANE which because I always have chancery Lane to Farringdon in my runs meant I had to improvise. So presuming that everyone went east at the start i thought I go differant and just hope that the time differance helps if same train finish scenario.

I rode onto bayswater and ran to Queensway missing a circle leaving as I got top of stairs waited 5 mins for district rode down to Earl's ct and onto a waiting pic.

Took all way kx and dB Euston all I should have done that from Warren St side in hinesight. Down to MoorGate and all way across to Paddington H and c.

Only time I actually saw a tube challenger on run was the point I ran down into bakerloo line here running opposite to me we also met at Warren St briefly as he naturally was going to be in same ball park as I ran from regents pk he ran from Euston sq.

Here I should have done Euston but I don't think I have taken enough time off? But down to embankment and saw on board Upminster with circle 2 behind i was originally thinking a cannon St to St Paul's run. But changed made circle easily after running from aldgate east.

Went up liv st changed to dB st Paul's and back to the drain i have never had a good drain but today it was smiling on me got on seconds to spare. A little wait for a bakerloo down to e and c shot up to a waiting northern line train. Managed to get back to a reasonable door position to jub went up to Westminster changed to sloane Square dB Victoria and down to Vauxhall.

The results of the Zone 1 Challenge 2018 held on Friday 1st June.

There were 18 challengers in 15 teams.

15th: None of the Above (Roderick Hoffman)- 03:52:06 at Farringdon
14th: Egg Fried Ruislip (Matthew Hayward and Jamie Green)- 03:25:43 at Leicester Square
13th: Suffolk N Good (Ian McIntyre)- 03:02:25 at Farringdon
=11th: ...And we would walk zone one this year and we would walk zone one once more, just to be the team that walked zone one so we could get a time a score (Kevin Bown and Damian Cook)- 03:01:13 at Vauxhall
[Sing team name to tune of The Proclaimers 500 Miles song]
=11th: No Chancery Lane of Winning This Year (Peter Smyth)- 03:01:13 at Vauxhall
10th: You're only supposed to stop at the bloody stations (Tangy)- 02:59:44 at Farringdon
[Say team name in the voice of the famous Italian Job film quote]
9th: The train approaching Platform 2... has been cancelled (Andrew Baker)- 02:58:03 at Russell Square
8th: Take a Chancery Lane on Me (Michael Churchill)- 02:56:04 at Farringdon
7th: I Boroughly Enjoyed That (Andrew Chilcraft)- 02:54:09 at Russell Square
6th: I dreamed a dream, in times gone by, when hope was high and Thameslink worked (David Edwards)- 02:53:39 at Regents Park [Team name inspired by musical Les Miserables]
5th: Bakerloo Boys (Andrew & Keaton Ward)- 02:53:26 at Bond Street
4th: Karius Can't Blunder Liverpool Street (Andy James)- 02:53:03 at Vauxhall
3rd: Fifteen Floors High (Clive Burgess)- 02:52:10 at Bond Street
2nd: Strawberry Hill Forever (The Orange One)- 02:47:43 at Farringdon
1st: 1200 Miles Running Free From Malta (Rob Lomas)- 02:45:54 at Farringdon
*please confirm your finish station, your entry card has somehow got misplaced*

Best team name (as decided by a panel of Tube Challengers at the Random 15 who did not attend Zone One) was won by Kev and Nozza's entry. Egg Fried Ruislip came second and I Boroughly Enjoyed That in third.

Best score in the quiz was 39/50 by Michael Churchill.

Thankyou all for attending, for those that won, enjoy your prizes. For those that didn't, come back next year and try again!

Signed: Tangy
The BOZO

My team name was karius can't blunder Liverpool St

dstock17 wrote: ↑03 Jun 2018, 07:44 My team name was karius can't blunder Liverpool St

Thanks, edited. On your team entry card, it looked more like and F than a K.

Well done to tangy for organising and everyone that broke 3 hours from a tricky starting station...
Percentage wise that must be the most sub 3 hours times records on Z1 day? 2/3rds of the teams doing this...

I don't do running so I had no expectation of winning, but I'm chuffed to break three hours. I had a pre-planned circulatory route that includes a Chancery Lane/Farringdon walk, so I just followed that and finished at Farringdon.

Celebrity spot: On the original 1863 sub-surface section I shared a Hammersmith bound train with Jordan Stephens of Rizzle Kicks. I chickened out of asking for a selfie - he had his head in the Evening Standard.

I might let someone else win the quiz next year.

tangy wrote: ↑02 Jun 2018, 23:23Egg Fried Ruislip

How did that not win!?

hopeful traveller wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 23:39

tangy wrote: ↑02 Jun 2018, 23:23Egg Fried Ruislip

How did that not win!?

Cos our one did

tangy wrote: ↑02 Jun 2018, 23:23 1st: 1200 Miles Running Free From Malta (Rob Lomas)- 02:45:54 at Farringdon

Really sorry but my finish station was Russell Square and not Farringdon!