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i used farringdon - chancery lane in both 2004 and 2005. it can be useful but it's also quite efficient just to do the central line as one.

also, you really do have to run it, and it's 4-5 minutes. which can add stress to the fast pace of the zone 1 challenge. so i tend to avoid it now.

Yes, it's a bit of a slog. The only real problem is getting lost in various markets and other things, which can be alleviated by practising beforehand. The run from station entrance to station entrace was only about three minutes, if I remember rightly.

Starkey have you considered trying for the GB team at London 2012

I may run faster than the Circle line, but that's not saying much. Besides, I travelled light enough that I didn't need a bag, which was a great help!

3hrs 18mins 04secs to register please Anthony...

Jamie and Kevin Brown

Starkey7 wrote:The run from station entrance to station entrace was only about three minutes, if I remember rightly.

Going Underground wrote:Starkey have you considered trying for the GB team at London 2012

I agree with Starkey. It's around 640 meters (0.4 miles) only (sloppily measured with Google Earth). Most able younger (than me) people would easily do it in 3 minutes. It corresponds to running the mile in 7.5 minutes which is considerably slower than a "dream mile" of 4 minutes - and even that would hardly qualify for the olympics!

Ahem, please re-check your maths oh mighty masked one, 3hrs 18 mins 04 secs would appear to be worthy of 27th place

Arrrgh! Why did I put it there?! Fixed now.

I'll put the rest of the times up soon.

Cheers Anthony, I know 27th not much to shout about but timewise it's still my p.b.

Oh and when you put the others up I will be outside the top 30

some more times for you...

samuel robinson - 3:04:54 (UZ1)
samuel robinson & nicola grant - 3:27:27 (Z1C2006)

Since my team's time isn't up on the list (or my eyes are decieveing me) is 3:00:14 by myself (Martin Hazel) and Steven Karahan. Zone 1 2006.

I don't remember my time from the Unofficial Zone 1 day, can someone please remind me of it? I know it wasn't great, but still...

it was worse than mine

Yeah, true. I know my route could have been a good half an hour quicker than it was though. I'm not going to complain about how long I had to wait for certain trains, but I will complain about sitting in Hyde Park Corner for 5 minutes for no apparent reason!

Basically, I got to the half-way point at 1 hour, 23 minutes - about half of the current record - but by the three-quarter point I was already fifteen minutes down, and then it got worse. A bad day.

Hey Ollie, I can confirm that team "Edgwhere" came home in a time of 3hrs 13mins 42secs, finishing 5th out of 6th teams with only me behind you