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I’ll just do it every day this week until it works, easy...

That's what I thought a couple of years ago! Pleased I'm not the only nutter to have tried it.

MarcG wrote: Beer thoughts:
The reason we all did this was because of the beer festival. So how about a meetup over a beer and share our stories of the day? What about this Wednesday at King’s Cross/St Pancras, say around 5pm so it’s early enough for Tube_b to join? Tracktakid, can I buy you a beer?

Cheers,
Marc

Marc - Thanks for sharing your account and your analysis of a fastest theoretical route. I found your analysis fascinating and confirms my own calculations based on a similar logic based on the log-books from my attempts,which I referred to earlier when refuting Barton's claim of a 15h6m route. Even though I didn't make an attempt last week, I'd love to meet up for a beer if that's OK, especially as I'm in town on Wednesday for a Board meeting anyway. If you would like to confirm please PM or e-mail me.

I believe the Bartons admitted there was a typo on their route. I think they still had a theoretical wr time though, as did most of us.

A beer would be great but I have a prior commitment; another time though

I would love to meet up- but the very earliest I could make at KGX/STP is about 1915 as I finish work at 1800 in Milton Keynes. If this is a suitable option, please let me know.

*edit*
Just remembered I am busy on Wednesday evening anyway

So, to summarise

FART was completed by

Andrew & Peter Barton 17:23:53
Andrew Chilcraft 17:23:53 (tied, having taken a completely different route)

and Marc Gawley also completed on the day in an imprecise time of 16:3x:xx, having spent the whole week challenging!

FART was nearly completed by

Sam Inman and Cameron SquadronLeadereggbox (261 in 19:10:45)

FART was abandoned by

Al Brown
Iain MacNaughton & Rhys Jackson
Andi James & Damian Cook

FART is expected to return next year, organised in better time hopefully!

tractakid wrote:So, to summarise

FART was completed by

Andrew & Peter Barton 17:23:53
Andrew Chilcraft 17:23:53 (tied, having taken a completely different route)

and Marc Gawley also completed on the day in an imprecise time of 16:3x:xx, having spent the whole week challenging!

FART was nearly completed by

Sam Inman and Cameron SquadronLeadereggbox (261 in 19:10:45)

FART was abandoned by

Al Brown
Iain MacNaughton & Rhys Jackson
Andi James & Damian Cook

FART is expected to return next year, organised in better time hopefully!

i will organise it as if people want to be filmed curtesy of dan ridgeon and his team it will be helpful for those team to liase with me and dan.

fine, hijack the event then

tractakid wrote: FART was abandoned by

Al Brown
Iain MacNaughton & Rhys Jackson
Andi James & Damian Cook

FART is expected to return next year, organised in better time hopefully!

Dan needs to go with Iain and Rhys, seeing as he followed them all around, he should therefore count.

Do I count having done 161 as a point person?

I got the impression Dan was skipping sections to make sure he could keep up, or to get some action shots?

And no, you don't count.

tractakid wrote:fine, hijack the event then

Quite happy to let you organise it if u wish but remember I did tell you that they will be three film cameras teams so u have extra responsibility to organise them as well I was happy to take off your hands

tractakid wrote:I got the impression Dan was skipping sections to make sure he could keep up, or to get some action shots?

And no, you don't count.

He did every station with them as far as I'm aware - he certainly was with them whenever I was there. I was the one who went ahead. The only one he missed was Goodge Street when he got separated from the group at Walthamstow, and I waited for him at Tottenham Hale.

palkanetoijala31 wrote:

tractakid wrote:fine, hijack the event then

Quite happy to let you organise it if u wish but remember I did tell you that they will be three film cameras teams so u have extra responsibility to organise them as well I was happy to take off your hands

Why would I have to organise them? Can't they organise themselves in conjunction with whoever they are filming?

I don't think tractakid was asking for people to volunteer to organise it next year. He was imply stating that he would do a better job than he did this year.

tractakid wrote:

palkanetoijala31 wrote:

tractakid wrote:fine, hijack the event then

Quite happy to let you organise it if u wish but remember I did tell you that they will be three film cameras teams so u have extra responsibility to organise them as well I was happy to take off your hands

Why would I have to organise them? Can't they organise themselves in conjunction with whoever they are filming?

i dont think u know how hard it was to get dan there in the first place especially to get accommodation sort out whom he was running with i think u missed the point.

As far as organising the event itself, pretty much all that needs to be done is selecting the date. If individual teams want support crew / cameramen / helicopters to follow them around that is up to them to sort out.