Secret 274 ... and a provisional new World Record!
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Well done!
Congratulations to everyone involved in this attempt. Quite a feat of planning, logistics and endurance!
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Re: Well done!
Thanks for the kind comments, planning, logistics and endurance have been absolutely key and if you add fitness the whole team have worked incredibly hard to achieve this over the past 9 months or so..jbom1 wrote:Congratulations to everyone involved in this attempt. Quite a feat of planning, logistics and endurance!
At last on GWR V we had some of the main ingredient LUCK the most important element of any GWR atttempt.... Having said that the balance of luck was still only probably 30-70% against, which trust me is by far the best we have experienced in the 5 attempts thus far....
The whole team feel that with luck 70-30% in our favour then a sub 18 hour time is a distinct probability in the very near future...
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I think that says it all, Sam...Soup Dragon wrote:The route was very different from previous attempts, however due to being 20 mins behind schedule in the morning we had to alter our initial Shoreditch plans.
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Why the obsession with Shoreditch folks, there are another 274 stations on the network
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Word on the street (OK, it's from me) is that Geoff still reckons our world record record route is worth 18 hours dead on a good day, and I believe it too.
So you never know - we could come out of retirement and show you kids how it's done one of these days.
Or we could continue not beng arsed. It's hard to decide really ...
So you never know - we could come out of retirement and show you kids how it's done one of these days.
Or we could continue not beng arsed. It's hard to decide really ...
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Nothing to stop you going round for charity and trying for GWR at same time..... We did last year and fully intend to do so again.....tubeguru wrote:I will only come out of retirement to beat you all and regain the record.
I've done my bit for charity with Tube Relief after all ...
No point in going round and not logging all the times, getting witness statements, trains no's. etc... You never know might just get that perfect running day and would be annoying.......
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