After some sad amounts of thinking I have come up with yet another new idea for a challenge - the distance challenge.
THE RULES:
Participants get together at a starting station for a certain time (same old same old), then have a certain amount of hours to cover as much distance around London as possible.
To make it fair, once you have visited a station, stretch of line, bus route or whatever you cannot do it again on the whole challenge (so you can't just ferry yourself from Fenchurch Street to Upminster and back again, once you get to Upminster you'd have to get a bus to Romford as an example)
All modes of transport are accepted
With every meet up there will be certain stations, landmarks and general quirks that will gain 'bonus miles' as such so a working example:
Big Ben: 1.5 miles
Heathrow airport: 15 miles
Dag + Red FC: 9 miles
To finish all participants MUST meet back at the 'finishing station' which will be separate to the starting station within the given time plus 5 minutes and anyone who doesn't make the cut is disqualified.
After all participants meet up at the end you work out the distance you've done yourself when you get signal (so an Internet enabled phone is pretty vital
)Just to give you all an idea what it might look like:
Distance Challenge 2013 Round 1 date: xx/xx/2013 Starting time: xx:xx hours
Participants have FOUR hours to cover as much distance as possible.
Bonus miles will be given for visiting:
Tower of London: 2 miles
Willesden Junction: 4.5 miles
London City Airport (DLR only): 3.5 miles
Fulham Broadway: 4 miles
Heathrow Airport: 12 miles
M + S at Westfield Stratford: 7 miles
News International: 6 miles
Bruce Grove: 5 miles
AFC Wimbledon: 10 miles
Brockley: 7 miles
What do you all think?
