Tube Olympics - Bottle Challenge - 15th July

[Soup Dragon]

Competitors for the Bottle
Kevin Brown
Ryan Brown
Matt Nunn
Matt Scrivin
Steve Karahan
Antony Brown
Jamie Brown
Phil Brown
John Stark
Martin Hazel

[greatkingrat]

Hopefully I will be attending although it will depend when I finish work, so don't wait for me.

Apparently I have the 12th quickest bottle time although I don't actually remember doing it before!

[Going Underground]

Are we meeting outside or inside the barriers?

<excited again>

Matt you change your mind about tube challenging as often as the weather....

I would suggest outside the barriers at Aldgate station, not sure if any of you have ever been through the barriers at Aldgate before...

[Soup Dragon]

Hopefully I will be attending although it will depend when I finish work, so don't wait for me.

Apparently I have the 12th quickest bottle time although I don't actually remember doing it before!

Just browsing around, noticed this http://www.tubeforum.co.uk/forum/viewto ... t=46&p=388

Seems your previous attempt is very much real, and has a handy starting station to boot

Well that attempt was over 3 years ago so it's hardly suprising that Peter can't remember doing it. It just shows how far we've come in a few years that the previous record has since been beaten by a large margin. How uncanny that Peter started that attempt from Aldgate as well.

p.s. the draw for Thursday's Zone One will now take place at the Horse & Groom tonight, once we've completed the Bottle.

[greatkingrat]

I remember now

I won't be using the same route again today though.

[Soup Dragon]

Well it was a slightly better turn out tonight with 11 competitors in 6 teams, and with less than 9 minutes seperating first and last it was a close battle for the medals. The full results and medal table can be found at Tube Olympics

[Going Underground]

Have to agree with you on that score Matt, tired, aching, hot & bothered and our last train home took forever......We got overtaken by 3 district lines between Hammersmith Acton Town as we crawled along then we waited for Nothfields terminators to pass us....
01:30 hrs to bed was not good.....
Yes lots of luck last night, all of it bad..................

Oh well onto Russell Square Thursday........

[palkanetoijala31]

Did u ever find out what happenend at marble arch nice video

[dudey]

It seems I wasn't the only one, but I definitely had an eventful evening last night. All started well, my first circle line (along with everyone else) ran exactly to schedule and so at Bayswater it was a brisk run up the road to Queensway. Myself and Ping Pon got there first, and with no lift just leaving i went straight for the stairs. However it seemed noone else thought of this and I was on my own when i got to the platforms to see a train arriving. Pleased with myself, I jump on and watch down the platform for the other 2 teams who were taking the lift to see if they would make it. It was then that I had a sudden realisation, just as the doors were about to close, that I was going in the wrong direction. I made a snap decision and jumped off just in time. Just as I got off and the doors closed behind me, Ping Pon runs onto the platform and reaches out and fails to get the door. The others were soon to follow and it was then that i realised what I'd done. I'd let the right train go! We all ended up waiting 3 minutes for the next train and all of that was time i could have made on those 2 other teams.

The rest of the run panned out averagely, and it transpired that GreatKingRat and I had the same route. Almost. Heading up from Charing X, I admitted I wasn't going to be taking the train to get from Warren St to Russel Sq. So with the time still looking like it should be sub-2hrs, even with my earlier mistake, I ran out of Warren St with a 0.9 mile run ahead of me, and 10 mins to do it in to make it worthwhile. But I had a plan. I ran about half the distance, and then my plan came together when a lovely 68 bus appeared right on cue. I think I must be the only person to ever use a bus on a bottle challenge?
Platform to platform time was 7min50sec. But it wasn't over. The Russell Sq platform was a bit more busy than usual at 9pm on a tuesday evening, there obviously hadn't been a train for a few minutes. But the platform indicator stuck in the final blow. It read only 'PICADILLY LINE', and it did for the next 4 minutes. Then finally a sign of life. '6 mins'. "Oh Cock". I waited for 10 minutes for that final train and after all the excitement of making to Russell Sq so quickly, I was down and out. The final train was of course rammed, and when I got to my final stop it transpired that two other teams were also on that train and we'd all got the same time. To say I was gutted doesn't go far enough. Then I lost my darts semi too

An epic night though! Thrills and spills on the tube olympics. See you all on Saturday!

[tangy]

I ran about half the distance, and then my plan came together when a lovely 68 bus appeared right on cue. I think I must be the only person to ever use a bus on a bottle challenge?

That's where you're wrong Dudey! My Bottle challenge last night involved a bus between Marble Arch and Hyde Park Corner.

My gamble of doing Charing X as a double back from Embankment didn't quite work, as I chose the Bakerloo in which to do the double back. Which turned out to be the wrong choice as had a 2 minute wait north and then crossing over to the southbound at CX saw "Elephant 5 mins". So decided to run right through the station to the Northern, only to see a train pull away with 3 minutes wait for the next! Drat!!

The Bakerloo also messed me up again at Edgware Road with an equally poor 4 minute wait and both the lifts at Regents Park being "upstairs" at street level!

I didn't run Ruseell Square- Warren Street but the more common run to Goodge Street which I did in about 6 minutes and thus ended at Warren Street

[logsfan]

Well done to everyone who did the Bottle challenge! Good luck to everyone who's doing the Zone 1 thingy.

Ann

[Going Underground]

Welcome to the forum Ann......

[Soup Dragon]

OMG I wonder if that is Ann Howell, Olympic gold medallist????

[tubeguru]

How did you reach that conclusion?

[Soup Dragon]

By a process of elimination, how smart am I?