Geoff's Tube 21 - 14th September 2012

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Geoff's Tube 21 - 14th September 2012

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Re: Tube 21 - 14th September 2012

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like a ninja! Nice time!
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Re: Tube 21 - 14th September 2012

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Well done and hard luck. Although if you had to fail to beat the record, it was gratifying that you were only one second outside my time of three weeks ago.

I've updated the top times table listed in the Tube Challenge Chat bit of the forum. However, the implication from your post is that it may not have been a solo effort. If you had anyone else with you doing the full 270, let me know and I'll add their names to the list.
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NIgel, indeed - it was myself and Richard Griffin who completed yesterday. I note this morning that it was another time that beats the long-standing 16:44! which for a while we all thought was impossible to beat.

i've just done some calculations and agonisingly realised that we just missed a District train late on (the service pattern was all screwed due to the Edgware Road failure), and had we got it, we would have made an Overground train at Gunnersbury, put us ahead at Richmond, and subsequently a train ahead/10 minutes at Acton Town, and we could have come home with a 16:33, depite the network being broken! amazing.

am updating my own website now (including correcting your time!)
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Well done Geoff good to see the times coming down again. It looked for a while that Sub 17hour times were but a distant memory.
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Full Network Challenge times are coming down in the same way athletic world records are.

Does this mean you're all on steroids? #tenuouslink
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No it means we've all getting good at running! We made an Ickenham/West Ruisip that I would have never have made back in the old days because I simply couldn't run that fast - but now i can. I'm out three times a week now pounding the pavement, so hope to keep on slowly improving.

My legs (hamstrings) are all sore today, but i can already tell they're not as sore i as i remember they used to be the day after a challenge, so I think i'm recovering better as well which is a good sign.

There's still time there to beat (considering we also wasted 10 minutes waiting for a Hainault Loop train), so it can be beaten. One day, someone will get a time, which shaves it, and then perhaps some more, and shaves it again - and then maybe it will be impossible. or just 'same train' luck and you beat it by seconds.

Mainly though, i'm chuffed that we all (as a team) came up with a working route that doesn't rely on an exhibition day. It means we can go out anytime we like now ...
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sorry point I was trying to make it had been a year since anyone had gone sub 17 Hour, then we get 2 full networks in the space of 3 weeks that manage it.
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No prizes for guessing what I'm going to say...
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Something completely irrelevant?
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tubeguru wrote:Something completely irrelevant?
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Yes, what are you going to say hopeful traveller? (because the service broke - AGAIN! - so i am listing it as a day when it failed on us)

i'm sure Nigel won't mind me saying this because he's admitted it himself - but his Saturday route wouldn't work on a weekday because of timetable differences. Likewise, our weekday route wouldn't work on a Saturday due to the different start that we did. Therefore (pedantic as it may seem) i've listed NIgel's 270 on my site under a 'Saturday' category and everyone else's on a Monday-Friday. But yes Nozza, sub-17's are with us again! (i knew what you meant, s'okay)

Come to think about it, if I was being a complete idiot about it - what with that "Who's in the 270 club?" thread, i suppose we should now stake a claim for 'Fastest 270 on a non-exhibition day service', attempt. Yes, there. We win that. Let me go and update my signature ... :wink:
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You're quite unlucky; it always breaks on you whenever you get to a certain place. I have commuted for eight years now (and challenged for one) and delays are rarer.
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Re: Tube 21 - 14th September 2012

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HT, I don't think it would be helpful for you to comment on the tube's reliability in future FNC attempt threads. We all know where you stand, and it's not the most sympathetic thing to say after someone has been let down after 15+ hours of hard work. All right? :)

No hard feelings of any kind, I just think it is getting a bit silly now.
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Re: Tube 21 - 14th September 2012

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As I said in write up of my attempt three weeks ago, there were four significant service disruptions that I heard about, three of which affected me to a greater or lesser extent. Like Geoff's attempt, without a particular one of these disruptions I would have been virtually guaranteed a 16h33m time and a good chance of a 16h23m time. If none of them had happened, who knows?

While I freely admit the exact route I took would not work so well on a weekday, on a Saturday there are considerable restrictions on the starting options due to a much reduced early morning service. Having learnt from my Saturday experience, I think I can now amend the route a bit so that that a revised version does work much better on a weekday.
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