Two Attempts Today

[Edgemaster]

Two attempts are happening today, and can be followed on the respective peoples' twitter feeds!

On the #spwt team:
@***** (Who currently has a tingling nose)
@molecrochip
@matthewf_

And #apwt:
@SamYTFC
@scrxisi
Al

[tubeguru]

I met both teams at Rickmansworth and travelled with them down to Moor Park, up to Watford and then back to North Harrow.

There, I've given away the route now, so you can all go out and set world records if you like.

[tubeguru]

Geoff's having a bit of a mare, from his Twitter posts. Looks like Uxbridge got him again.

[rhubarbrhubarb]

I wonder how it's all going ....

(Says he, not having access to Twitter ....)

[greatkingrat]

Here are the latest updates

scrxisi: Done some maths. Give or take, we are 4 minutes behind schedule - somehow. 1 crucial crucial bit remains #apwt about 1 hour ago via txt

*****: Elevem hours down. Six to go? Delayed on the jubilee line. fcuk!! #spwt 22 minutes ago via txt
And we were running on record time too ... #spwt 21 minutes ago via txt

[Going Underground]

They must be melting out there, it is seriously way too hot for a full network...

[Going Underground]

A short terminator, a slow onward train and an not very good off-tube connection sees us drop to 20 behind...

which we think is about to become 40


Matt has posted above in last 30 mins...

[Going Underground]

At 1920 from Matt

Game on, -2 min connection made, we reckon 11 down but our heads hurt from the Maths so might be wrong

[tubeguru]

I think Geoff is screwed thanks to Edgware Road.

[Edgemaster]

It was a nice -2 minute connection

[tubeguru]

And a reversal for Geoff. He came in with 16 hours 45, but with a caveat ...

Team Scrawley-Brown suffered signal failure on the Victoria line and shot their load too early.

[Sam]

Wow, how'd he gain 5 mins after finishing!!

Also, he really should visit Olympia if he wants the record

[tubeguru]

He worked out that if there had been an Olympia train then he would still have got a good time, because he spent 20 minutes waiting for one!

[Steeevooo]

Having only just read through the twitter feeds, it's nice to see that one team was honest with themselves and everyone (although I would like to know how to make a -2 minute connection - that could come in most handy ), whilst the other team is content to lead everyone to believe that they have set the 2nd fastest time under this configuration and narrowly missed out on the record, whilst not even managing a full completion... waiting a long time for trains that don't turn up is part of tube challenging, I don't see how waiting the appropriate amount of time entitles you to claim to everybody that you actually did it though? [rant over!]

[tubeguru]

I think Geoff's point is that had they managed to do Olympia quickly, without waiting, the time would have been a very good one for all 270 stations.