Thanks to everyone for their congratulations
I do think that, whilst this time is good and will hopefully prove tough to crack, I do believe that it is possible to go quicker - as Andi has mentioned, we did have two 10+ minute waits, we had far from perfect Ken O and Hainault Loop connections and barely any luck with buses (to explain about not running to Canons Park - we started to run there, then saw the 340 behind us, waited at the next bus stop for it, only for it to take forever to actually get to us...). Naturally we also had some very good luck too, the most important of which being the good service throughout the day (maybe Hakan can provide some statistics?). As Geoff has said in this thread, it just makes it more of a challenge - after all, this is what Tube Challenging is about isn't it - a challenge?!
Root wrote:This is just getting ridiculous. I mean, well done and everything, but the record seems to fall every few weeks nowadays... and every time, I think "surely it can't go any lower"? It's nearly a whole two hours less than the famous Geoff & Neil time. That, to me, is astonishing, even taking into account the configuration changes.
Not entirely sure where you are coming from here Ollie - Andi and Steve K's record stood for a very long time until Sam finally cracked it a couple of weeks back, so I would hardly say that it is falling every few weeks! The tone of your message implies that you are against the improvement of the record time - surely records are there to be beaten, and as long as people have the belief that it is possible to go quicker, then that is a good thing - your argument could equally be put to the 100m world record, people used to think sub 10 seconds was impossible, now Usain Bolt is doing 9.50ish, yet I don't hear people bemoaning that the "famous" record time by whoever is being smashed. Perhaps you wish that Tube Challenging ceased to exist after Geoff & Neil's time, so as to preserve their time for eternity...?
Whilst we all know that Andi goes out on these attempts rather often, this is provisionally only his third record, which doesn't indicate that high a success rate - although I think even he is beginning to acknowledge that he goes out there a bit
too often
