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What's a "lazy boy" route, Going Underground? Is that a route which involves doing the entire tube network without changing unless I can be bothered to get out of my seat?

Starkey7 wrote: What's a "lazy boy" route, Going Underground? Is that a route which involves doing the entire tube network without changing unless I can be bothered to get out of my seat?

Kind of Starkey. Basically you travel long stretches on the same line with as few changes as possible, however you may go through the same station more than once on a typical "lazy boy" route...

My next full challenge route will include West Ruislip - Epping in one fell swoop. Now that's lazy.

Root wrote:My next full challenge route will include West Ruislip - Epping in one fell swoop. Now that's lazy.

Better set your alarm clock in case you don't wake up at Epping

Root wrote:West Ruislip - Epping

That means:
a) UPHILL run from Ickenham.
b) No option to do Hainault loop in preferred direction - on the average the other way around is slightly better.

It doesn't mean an uphill (and that's only a slight incline, surely?) run at Ickenham if you're on a Lazy Boy route, and are doubling back down to South Ruislip or Greenford...

I was under the impression that changing at Woodford for a Hainault train, having come from Epping, only involves a three-minute wait. That sounds as good as it gets, considering trains are never on time! So can an anti-clockwise route around the loop really be very much quicker?

Anyway, Root, I admire that tactic. You are a true Lazy Boy, almost rivalling me!

I'd like to correct myself - I was dead wrong .- It's NOT quicker on the average.

What I should have said - checking my data on this - is that if you have a route where you don't rely on doing Epping and Hainault in a specific order, there are a few minutes to gain on the average (just like the obvious New Cross / New Cross Gaet order doesn't matter).

Yes, well...

As soon as I leave West Ruislip, I will know whether it is faster to get off at Leytonstone and wait for a HvW train, or to stay on to Epping.

As for the run, I always seem to end up having 9 or 10 minutes to get to West Ruislip from Ickenham, which is perfectly do-able without needing to go 100%.

There's also the option of doing the whole route in reverse.

There is also the mythical U1.

I think I use it once, but it might have been a mirage

PFW, it we did use it on your tuberelief thing, and i have used it on every attempt since. it always works!

Yes, I've seen them around lots of times near where I live. However, does the U1 take you very far? I was under the impression that it doesn't go very near Ickenham station itself, although it does go along the high street.
Much better would be the U10, but even I have never seen that bus!

On three (four, Sam and Steve???) attempts plus reconnaisance (sp.) we have NEVER used a U1... in fact, I have only ever seen one once and it was going in the wrong direction...

Besides, how can you class Ickenham/West Ruislip as uphill? It's pretty much unnoticeable to be frank...

Starkey7 wrote:Yes, I've seen them around lots of times near where I live. However, does the U1 take you very far? I was under the impression that it doesn't go very near Ickenham station itself, although it does go along the high street.
Much better would be the U10, but even I have never seen that bus!

You take the U1 to Uxbridge.