walking routes

[palkanetoijala31]

as being quite a fit person and a bloody good cross country runner
i like someone to challenge me on a route running from 1 station to another something like high barnet to cockfosters or harrow & whealdstone to stanmore please no silly ones like amersham to upminster for example a week saturday i have a day off so am going to do most of the long running routes to see how fast i can do them

north harrow to west harrow
preston road to south kenton
northwick park to kenton
new cross to new cross gate
brockhurst hill to roding valley
west ruislip to ickenham
edgware to canons park

[Starkey7]

You might want to consider:

Liverpool Street to Shoreditch,
Temple to Covent Garden,
Cockfosters to High Barnet,
Goldhawk Road to Shepherds Bush (Central line),
Kensington Olympia to High Street Kensington.

[editorsfoot]

Roding Valley to Buckhurst Hill
Wimbledon to South Wimbledon
Gunnersbury to Chiswick Park
North Ealing to West Acton (although North Ealing is shut at weekends)

[Soup Dragon]

You could also try Wembley Park to North Wembley.
Starkey suggested this run to me on the Points of the Compass challenge.
It was a killer, especially when you consider it was shortly followed by Kenton to Northwick Park and then North Harrow to West Harrow
I think thats around 4 km of running just to visit a handful of stations.

[Dr Who]

How about Watford to Harrow & Wealdstone or Hatton Cross to Richmond or what about everyone’s favourite run Uxbridge to Amersham, there all nice little runs!

[palkanetoijala31]

hi

thanks for the advice guys i certainly give quite a few of them a go would anyone like me to post my results after i have done as a guide for future peoples attempts

[Soup Dragon]

hi

thanks for the advice guys i certainly give quite a few of them a go would anyone like me to post my results after i have done as a guide for future peoples attempts

I would say that you should not post this information. Anyone serious about attempting the full network should really do their own research and not be spoon feed with useful information on distances of runs and time they take to achieve.

[Going Underground]

hi

thanks for the advice guys i certainly give quite a few of them a go would anyone like me to post my results after i have done as a guide for future peoples attempts

I would say that you should not post this information. Anyone serious about attempting the full network should really do their own research and not be spoon feed with useful information on distances of runs and time they take to achieve.

Seconded, it anyone want's to know this information then get out there and research it yourself
I feel that far too much has already been said with regard to 275 routes

[tubeguru]

I've been saying this for years ...

[petermiller36]

so have i! many times! if ur special enough to know a quick way of running from uxbridge to heathrow (;)) then keep your mouth shut.

[hwolge]

I've been saying this for years ...

And yet you provide the only place to share this type of information...

[tubeguru]

It's at the discretion of the individual challengers as to whether they divulge their "secrets".

In my capacity of the owner of this site I can say that I have provided a place where tube challengers can discuss these things.

In my capacity of tube challenger (ex), I would personally not reveal anything that would give any help to anyone trying to beat my time.

[Soup Dragon]

I don't think there is anything wrong with generally pointing someone in the right direction, and it's entirely up to an individual how much they chose to divulge. However, if you have spent weeks and months researching your route why make it easy for someone else by just giving away all your information.

For me the actual research is all part of the fun of the challenge, trying to find better ways of making connections within stations and researching which stations are best to change at, nothing actually beats going out there and doing it yourself.

I appreciate that not everyone on the forum lives nears London so the chances to do research are somewhat limited, however there is still plenty of research that you can do online that proves useful on the day.

[tubeguru]

Part of the fun is indeed coming into London on a couple of days off and going round sighting everything and getting it fixed in your head for the big day.

Geoff and I tested the world record route over two consecutive days from Amersham to Aldgate East (didn't bother going to Upminster) to get everything right.

It took me three weeks to get every door position by visiting the site of each change and noting it down.

[hwolge]

I appreciate that not everyone on the forum lives nears London so the chances to do research are somewhat limited, however there is still plenty of research that you can do online that proves useful on the day.

Indeed! Without Internet a Swedish-based challenge would had been impossible...

We would probably not be the current GWR holders if it weren't for this forum. Not necessarily because of any hard info on here, but simply because it inspires!

It took me three weeks to get every door position by visiting the site of each change and noting it down.

...something we never bothered doing. We relied on the Way Out guide mainly (with all it's flaws), but we did visit around ten interchanges the day before our record and took notes.