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Going Underground wrote:Another time please Anthony

Jamie and Kevin Brown in a P.B. time of 3hrs 05mins and 05secs, not even good enough for the top 20

Hi Anthony, the above time still needs to be listed and here are some others all obtained from Vauxhall start at 1903hrs on 29th August

In reverse order;

3hrs 24 mins 03 secs, John Stark and friend Paul
3hrs 16 mins 26 secs, Kevin and Phil Brown
3hrs 00 mins 28 secs, Phil (Editorsfoot)
3hrs 00 mins 09 secs, Ric Brackenbury

And finally

2hrs 51 mins 36 secs, Antony and Jamie Brown...

Also I attempted it yesterday lunchtime. I started at Vauxhall and finished at Southwark, in a time of 2 hours, 52 minutes and 22 seconds.

If I hadn't done something extremely stupid at Baker Street, or something extremely unlikely hadn't happened there, I would probably have got something like 2 hours 44 minutes, since I was nearing the end of the attempt there.

sigh

What happen?

(Someone set you up the bomb?)

No, not quite. You may recall that on that day, someone went under a train at West Hampstead, so the police were roaming around the Tube.
I was coming from Moorgate and wanted to go to Paddington (H/C), near the end of my attempt. The first train west was an Uxbridge train, followed by a Hammersmith and City. "I'll change at Baker Street," I thought. On arriving at Baker Street, the doors didn't open for three or four minutes, during which time that Hammersmith and City train had already been and gone. There were police swarming around that station, which perhaps explains that rare event!

I was very sad.

edDid it today in 3.11- route needs a little work.
That makes it...

1. 2:45:11 Ric Brackenbury
2. 2:51:36 Anthony & Jamie Brown
3. 2:51:54 David Scard, Ric Brakenbury and Andrew Baker (Z1C 2006)
4. 2:52:19 Starkey7
5. 2:52:47 Anthony Smith
6. 2:55:50 Steve Paull (Z1C 2004)
7. 2:55:50 Ewan Spence, Tom Reynolds (Z1C 2004)
8. 2:56:20 Anthony Smith, Ed?
9. 2:56:51 Håkan Wolgé, Patrick Sillen (Z1C 2005)
10. 2:57:05 Peter Smythe, Erin Faulkner (Z1C 2005)
11. 2:57:24 Geoff Marshall, Neil Blake (Z1C 2005)
12. 2:58:37 Håkan Wolgé, Patrick Sillen, Johan Idh
13. 2:59:05 Anthony Smith
14. 2:59:19 Adham Fisher (Z1C 2004)
15. 3:00:09 Ric Brackenbury
16. 3:00:14 Martin Hazel, Steven Karahan (Z1C 2006)
17. 3:00:28 Anthony Smith, Chelle (UZ1)
18. 3:00:28 Phil Booth
19. 3:00:41 Anthony Smith
20. 3:01:07 Anthony Smith, Adham Fisher (Z1C 2005)
21. 3:02:49 David Scard, David Perrin (Z1C 2004)
22. 3:02:49 Peter Smythe (Z1C 2004)
23. 3:04:03 Geoff Marshall, Neil Blake (Z1C 2004)
24. 3:04:54 Samuel Robinson (UZ1)
25. 3:04:59 Stephen Knight (Z1C 2005)
26. 3:05:05 Jamie & Kevin Brown
27. 3:06:23 David Scard, Mark Knee (Z1C 2005)
28. 3:09:05 Ric Brackenbury (UZ1)
29. 3:10:51 Peter Miller (Z1C 2005)
30. 3:10:57 Jodie Armstrong, Mark Hurn (Z1C 2004)
31. 3:11:17 Joe Riordan
32. 3:11:53 Samuel Robinson, Joe Boyle (Z1C 2004)
33. 3:12:12 Peter Miller (UZ1)
34. 3:13:14 Ric Brackenbury, David Scard
35. 3:13:30 Ric Brackenbury (Z1C 2005)
36. 3:13:35 Chris Green (Z1C 2005)
37. 3:13:42 Ollie Lewisohn (UZ1)
38. 3:15:41 Monster Raving Bakerloony Party (Z1C 2006)
39. 3:16:26 Kevin & Phil Brown
40. 3:16:37 Damien Cook (Z1C 2006)
41. 3:17:47 Steve Paull (Z1C 2005)
42. 3:18:04 Jamie and Kevin Brown (UZ1)
43. 3:18:15 Andrew "The Stanmore Rattler" Steer (Z1C 2005)
44. 3:18:17 Joe Riordan
45. 3:18:25 Steven Karahan, Samuel Robinson (Z1C 2005)
46. 3:18:43 Kevin, Antony and Jamie Brown (Z1C 2006)
47. 3:18:44 John Stark (Z1C 2006)
48. 3:21:00 James Gommon, Rosie Gommon and David Williams (Z1C 2006)
49. 3:21:39 Jeff Harvey (Z1C 2005)
50. 3:23:15 Jonathan Amery (Z1C 2005)
51. 3:24:00 Jodie Armstrong, Mark Hurn (Z1C 2005)
52. 3:24:03 John Stark & Paul (Sic)
53. 3:27:27 Samuel Robinson, Nicola Grant (Z1C 2006)
54. 3:29:55 Chris Presswell, Hannah, Pete Lupton and Jon (Z1C 2006)
55. 3:31:21 John Sanders (Z1C 2004)
56. 3:31:30 Bronwyn Sutton, Barry Gater (Z1C 2005)
57. 3:40:00 Alan Tanaman (Z1C 2006)
58. 3:42:04 Edmund Craske, Letitita Piggot (Z1C 2006)
59. 3:47:00 Mark Collins, Martin Elsdon (Z1C 2005)
60. 3:55:33 Dave Moran and co.
61. 3:57:58 Chris Presswell, Andrew Toynbee (Z1C 2005)
62. 3:59:01 The Raven
63. 4:07:38 Jonathan 'Senji' Amery

I have a chance of being higher than 63rd then! I will force myself to get sub-3h30m!

9 days time, and I'll be getting close to the end of my thrash around Zone 1. Should I have a good time, I'll be posting it here. God only knows I can't fail so much to get worse than 63rd...

If anyone is interested my real name is Phil Booth. I also have a 3:23:58 from the Angel zone 1 back in July.

Sorry to be a pain but I also had a time last week of 2:52'19", but there's no need to count both this one and the 2:52'22" time: they were both the same route!

Now that Zone 1 challenging is getting quite popular, do you think that the station staff of particular stations are getting used to the sight of madmen running off down the street to another station? I suppose that if you're a member of Underground staff, then you probably see quite a lot of strange things...

Starkey7 wrote:Sorry to be a pain but I also had a time last week of 2:52'19", but there's no need to count both this one and the 2:52'22" time: they were both the same route!

Well done Starkey another 3 seconds off your time, i think you're homing in on the record. I reckon the route myself and Dr Who did on the Vauxhall Z1 has potential to go even quicker as well (if I can keep the stopwatch running properly!)

I've updated my site with all sub 3 hour times for Zone 1

http://pic5.piczo.com/tubedragon/?g=20609285&cr=5

Hehe three seconds. That's exactly what I thought! The trouble is that at that rate, it'll take me years to get down to the record...

You never told us your route, Mr Dragon. Is it a Secret or are you willing to share (bits of) it?

Edit: I've just read another post where you've said, "My favourite part of the Z1 Lazy Boy wass [sic] the Bakerloo from Paddington to E&C but the rest of my route is TOP SECRET!" So that answers my question!

I thought that I revealed the route to those present in McDonalds, but if you were'nt listening then it's tough luck. I'm not going to reveal the full route in public until I break the record!! Only kidding, you're welcome to the full route if you like but seems like you've already got some pretty good routes yourself

Starkey7 wrote:Sorry to be a pain but I also had a time last week of 2:52'19", but there's no need to count both this one and the 2:52'22" time: they were both the same route!

Now that Zone 1 challenging is getting quite popular, do you think that the station staff of particular stations are getting used to the sight of madmen running off down the street to another station? I suppose that if you're a member of Underground staff, then you probably see quite a lot of strange things...

I'm dying to know what the London Bridge staff thought when myself and my friend made a dash from the Northern Line to the Jubilee only to arrive back on the Jubilee line and run back to the Northen in about 5 minutes.

I'm trying to think of the most seemingly-pointless leg of a tube challenge that I've done. I think that it'd have to be the Sloane Square double-back. It involves going up the stairs/escalator from the westbound platform, past the ticket hall and ticket barriers, and then down the stairs to the eastbound platform. Obviously this is all in full view of station staff and other people loitering in the ticket hall.

It's made even more amusing when it's not just I who's doing it, but six others (as on 29th August) en masse!

Starkey7 wrote:I'm trying to think of the most seemingly-pointless leg of a tube challenge that I've done. I think that it'd have to be the Sloane Square double-back. It involves going up the stairs/escalator from the westbound platform, past the ticket hall and ticket barriers, and then down the stairs to the eastbound platform. Obviously this is all in full view of station staff and other people loitering in the ticket hall.

It's made even more amusing when it's not just I who's doing it, but six others (as on 29th August) en masse!

Seems to figure in a lot of my routes ala last night.. The tricks off the trade are;
1) Gauge where the last eastbound train passed you to figure out if you have a chance of catching the next one. If it is already at the station when you pull in then forget it, not even Ric could cover the above mentioned route in time......

2) Just before you disembark on your left, have a look out the window on the right and see if you can spot any lights approaching...This was the scenario last night and we belted around and just made it....


By the way Antony when you next update I have a time to be added that might just get in the top 100...
3hrs 26mins 58secs; Cathryn, Ryan and Kevin

Anthony, there are 4 other times to post from the Cannon Street Z1 of 15th September:

2:59:16 Ric Brackenbury
3:19:21 John stark
3:23:45 Antony & Jamie Brown
3:29:34 Martin Hazel & Julian (sorry don't know your surname)

Sub 3 hour times have been updated to includes Ric's latest time:

http://pic5.piczo.com/tubedragon/?g=20609285