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***** wrote:spin? what spin? "now that's what i call a challenge!" (quote: me) is clearly indicative that i think that this is an incredible time - it is!

isn't blackfriars closed at the moment tho? that negates the Wood Lane stop. the whole new timetable probably helped.

of course .. someone could theoretically do the exact same route, be on the same last train ... and just get in 5 seconds faster.

let's face it, Andi will probably be out there at sometime doing just that. trying to shave a few seconds off of his own time!

Too true i wont rest on this record provisional or not!and to quote geoff if this attempt didnt work i had a plan b on friday where i therotically only had to push sara for 1 run for the world record.We had no luck wiv buses yesterday imagine a 307/384 out of high barnet a 79/186/340 out of edgware but no we also had 2 10m delays and a 9 min wait at hainault.

So to say the record is unattainable is exactly what was said july 24th it is possible to beat the time and it is now.!

I've merged steeeevvvooooooo's original thread from the other section into this one. Fortunately, the three posts fit in quite nicely.

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

I'd be lying if I didn't think something along the lines of "if I only lived nearer (or in) London and had the time, I'd be able to make more attempts". Well that's as may be but that's what a challenge is all about. Those with the real fire for it will likely get nearer the prize. Such is life: if you really want it, you can get it.

I salute anyone breaking the record, by whatever margin.

I think my challenge ratio will go down slightly only because i bust a gut on this 1 out of the 10 out of station runs i was ahead on 9 of them the last was hampered wiv a right calf muscle problem but a still impressive run time of 5 mins late in the day.

My next challenge will be the santa attempt which will be a different start different finish and im 34 now my age is starting to creep up on me.

i have finally figured out after 2 years how to do pictures wow!

23:09... I assume that photo was taken some time after you got there...

If they did what I think they did, that photo was taken a minute or two after they arrived.

Sam wrote:23:09... I assume that photo was taken some time after you got there...

about 3 minutes after we had arrived we were chatting to the driver who kindly took the photo for us.

greatkingrat wrote:If they did what I think they did, that photo was taken a minute or two after they arrived.

Ah, yeah good point, I forgot about that

Starkey7 wrote:

Sam wrote:No-one else has the fitness levels that they have...

Ahem.

Is this the same bloke that was beaten soundly by kevin brown of all people talking

Steeevooo wrote:

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...?

You appear to think that I worship Geoff & Neil, and their "famous" time, based on this post and the other one where I light-heartedly mentioned a "tribute" to them. You couldn't be more wrong - otherwise, why do you think I would have tried to break their record myself a few times, and indeed help you out considerably when you did break it? I just said that it "seems" that the record is being broken regularly - and compared to when I first became interested in Tube Challenging, I'm pretty sure that the record is being broken more often (though I'd be interested to know the precise stats). There was no "tone of my voice" (not least because it was text, not my voice). As I said, I find the new time to be "astonishing", and generally that's a word used to signify awe and respect for the achievement in question. I heartily congratulate you as the new record holders.

***** wrote:ah! here's the thread. still no start/finish stations though. i'm assuming an Amersham/Chesham start and a Heathrow finish?

with regards to two hours of the time: well. me & Neil got what... 18:35, but that included wasting 25 minutes around the Mill Hill East/Finchley central area. which is why i always maintained on a better day, we could have done 18:10. and on a near-perfect day, 18 hours. So take 18 hours... subtract 45/60 minutes for no more ELL, and that brings it down to 17:15, or 17:00 straight for me.

so yeah.. a whole 20 minutes faster than what i think i could do it in. now THAT'S what i call a challenge ...

Surfice to say our route is a secret but it wouldnt be hard to work out the starting station we used

Too late... i've been told... Maida Vale! Wow, not something I would have done personally

Sam wrote:Too late... i've been told... Maida Vale! Wow, not something I would have done personally

Maida vale well at least i could sing Warwick Avenue early on to not deafen anybody we even picked up a few coins singing that.