Hello
Posted: 01 Jan 2009, 10:09
Nappy Yew Hear to all of you.
And hi to those who remember me. In fact, hello to those who don't. I'm Peter.
Popped on here for the first time in ages, and bloody hell - 17 hours 12 minutes???? That's immense - well done to Steven and Andi (I think). One question though - are things finally settled now in terms of what now consists of an "all stations" challenge?
Is it basically no more ELL at all, and Terminal 5 now fully open, or are there any more developments I've missed? I'm guessing DLR still isn't part of it as it never was.
And here's the million euro question - roughly how long would the 17h12m (and a number of seconds I forget) record equate to if you were to take out T5 and add in the ELL again? Basically, comparing like for like, how would it compare to, say, Geoff and Neil's 18h35m?
Also, all stations by car - I'd be well up for trying this at some point in the future. Would be interesting to work out a "best order", and then doing TomTom vs PetePete (my own built-in navigational system in my head, which works in conjunction with a London A-Z) for that specific order. Or maybe just putting in all the locations into TomTom (or another, maybe better, sat-nav device) and letting it work out the optimum order, and having a head to head against that.
Also, ages back I mentioned a "laps of Soho challenge" - I quite fancy doing that at some point if anyone fancies a shot at it - it'd basically involve doing the Piccadilly Circus/Leicester Square/TCR/Oxford Circus loop by tube and also on foot (the route on foot's pretty obvious) - and have each team/individual involved do it both on foot and by tube, to see how they compare. I've done rough workings-out and it looks to be about 1.6 miles (depending on exactly where you measure the start and finish points around Piccadilly Circus, which is where I based it around starting/finishing), so based on my walking speed of 3mph that's around half an hour walking, so who knows how fast, flat out running? Stamina would be the key - I doubt very much I could run at any great speed for 1.6 miles, but let's say a reasonably fit person could halve that time and do it in around 15 minutes, there's got to be not much in it compared to tubing (or is that tubeing) it, once you take connections into account.
Anyway, I might possibly be up for this thing tomorrow - all depends how everything goes in terms of me getting stuff done that I want/need to get done, but I've got tomorrow off, so it could be a possibility.
And hi to those who remember me. In fact, hello to those who don't. I'm Peter.
Popped on here for the first time in ages, and bloody hell - 17 hours 12 minutes???? That's immense - well done to Steven and Andi (I think). One question though - are things finally settled now in terms of what now consists of an "all stations" challenge?
Is it basically no more ELL at all, and Terminal 5 now fully open, or are there any more developments I've missed? I'm guessing DLR still isn't part of it as it never was.
And here's the million euro question - roughly how long would the 17h12m (and a number of seconds I forget) record equate to if you were to take out T5 and add in the ELL again? Basically, comparing like for like, how would it compare to, say, Geoff and Neil's 18h35m?
Also, all stations by car - I'd be well up for trying this at some point in the future. Would be interesting to work out a "best order", and then doing TomTom vs PetePete (my own built-in navigational system in my head, which works in conjunction with a London A-Z) for that specific order. Or maybe just putting in all the locations into TomTom (or another, maybe better, sat-nav device) and letting it work out the optimum order, and having a head to head against that.
Also, ages back I mentioned a "laps of Soho challenge" - I quite fancy doing that at some point if anyone fancies a shot at it - it'd basically involve doing the Piccadilly Circus/Leicester Square/TCR/Oxford Circus loop by tube and also on foot (the route on foot's pretty obvious) - and have each team/individual involved do it both on foot and by tube, to see how they compare. I've done rough workings-out and it looks to be about 1.6 miles (depending on exactly where you measure the start and finish points around Piccadilly Circus, which is where I based it around starting/finishing), so based on my walking speed of 3mph that's around half an hour walking, so who knows how fast, flat out running? Stamina would be the key - I doubt very much I could run at any great speed for 1.6 miles, but let's say a reasonably fit person could halve that time and do it in around 15 minutes, there's got to be not much in it compared to tubing (or is that tubeing) it, once you take connections into account.
Anyway, I might possibly be up for this thing tomorrow - all depends how everything goes in terms of me getting stuff done that I want/need to get done, but I've got tomorrow off, so it could be a possibility.
I am using last years route which has 3 to 4 tricky little runs in, but I wont be busting a gut as it's too full of Xmas and New Year booze and food anyway 