Comic Relief 2011

[Sam]

I will send out random various update via twitter - follow @tubechallenge innit. Feel free to repost these to the forum masses.

Can I ask how if you're not taking your phone?

[al]

Looks like Matt may be the favourite to try and go the wrong way (as in North instead of South or such like) at some point tomorrow, based on that...

[Sam]

Right, I am not feeling that well at all tonight (Came home from work early ).

However, I am hoping to still come out tomorrow but may have to take shortcuts here and there. i.e. avoiding runs.

See you all in the morning.

Sam

[Neilandrewhall]

Im touch and go, at the moment due to my heart rate - at 21:30 it was up to 145 BPM. Which isn't normal for just sitting on my arse.

I will let you no, in a couple of hours how im feeling,.

Neil

[tubeguru]

Why the hell are any of you doing this? You're going to kill yourselves.

[Garion]

How? What's the chances of that happening? You did this too I might add...

[tubeguru]

Because everyone's crocked!

[RichieG]

Well I've just rung Andi... (his being the only phone number I've got stored in my phone)

... and spoke to Kevin...

They're about an hour down from schedule after being on a broken train at Stratford, C2C problems at Upminster. When I rung they were just about to go betwixt West Ruislip and Ickenham, Kevin dosed up on Ibuprofen becuause of his ankle, and everybody apart from Nozza in his fox costume very cold.

They're probably not going to complete, but they're going to go as long as they can... after all, it's for charity, innit?

[Sam]

Matthew and I have aborted. The pain in my knee made it too hard to carry on

[Sam]

Here's some photos of the day, I'd expect many more to go up when the others are done and dusted, but probably not tonight
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?fbid= ... aid=339993

[Going Underground]

Andi, Martin, Damien & Kevin completed 265 of 270 stations finishing at Watford in 17hrs 29mins 05secs... The missing 5 being Amersham, Chesham, Chalfont, Chorleywood & Rickmansworth

We could possibly have pressed on for a 269 but Andi's car was at Harrow and Damo was getting picked up by his father in law in Guildford from Hatton Cross.......

A day of extreme high & lows, we had to re-route at the 1st planned changed as we missed our Ken Oly train due district line signal failures...
We had a defective train at Stratford and were delayed for almost 15 mins, we were held for ages outside Brixton, we had a 10 minute delay at Baker Street, at Upminster someone had been taken ill on a C2C and the train was just sat in the platform with several stacking back heading eastbound and also using the westbound platform to get past........we waited nearly 20 minutes here... The Bakerloo line was in meltdown with all trains seemingly terminating at Queens Park, we arrived to be greeted with a 30 minute wait on the boards for Harrow & Wealdtsone However with 5 - 10 mins an empty Bakerloo train came in on the National rail platform...

The good stuff was Finchley Central MHE Finchley Central in 9 minutes
A lovely calculated 1 min change to pick up Woodford via Hainault
And 20 minutes train to train High Barnet Cockfosters

Plenty of encouragement from motorists tooting their horns during the many runs....

Well somehow the ankle held up 10 Ibuprofens and lots of strapping re-applied on the Central Line, which should make really exiting viewing int the video that Matt was taking

[Sam]

Awww nice to know I was missed haha

[Going Underground]

15 videos of a quality varying from crap to rubbish: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... D75A414297

I wouldn't say they were that good

[nozzacook]

Got home sunday and weighed in 10lb lighter than when I left. so if you want a fun way to lose weight then wear a fox costume around the tube.
checked in with the Pub the final total per station was £1.01 so wil raise £267.65 so the effort was worth it.

[Going Underground]

I was promised more but the donations have not been forthcoming yet so have stuck the £50.00 online that I have been given so far...
Don't know why but again I ticked all the right boxes and it hasn't added gift aid amount This happened to me on CiN day and also someone else at work said the same thing...
Anyway we have now reached £270.00 + £19.74 gift aid.....