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mates who couldnt be arsed to do the tube?? it wasnt Neil was it?! hehe sorry Neil, couldnt help myself!

Haha! He's not my mate. He's my mortal adversary.

I've asked several friends to do challenges with me and I always get let down.

I think the problem is that peopl think it will be boring, or hard work, which it occasionally is, indeed. Bu the Zone 1 challenge is hardly hard work, apart from a couple of runs which include moderate exertion!!

People see it as a mad or sad thing to do, as well, I think.

OK, it's time for Attempt Three.

I checked the Tube site a minute ago and there were no delays, and sure enough - if it sounds too good to be true, it is - the Northern Line started experiencing delays. Bugger.

So, will the current record be beaten? Will the evil badger lair be uncovered to the world? Will our hero eat a Hob-Nob or two? Stay tuned.

OK, i'm back. I didn't complete the challenge.

I woke up this morning and checked the Tube website - no reported delays - hallelujah! But no, the Northern line then became delayed, and by the time I got to the starting station the District and Circle lines had delays as well.

"No problem," I thought, "the D&C were delayed last time and I had a good run, so I'll give it a go."

So I gave it a go, and after waiting 12 minutes for a Circle line train to get between two stations, during which time the driver passed the time by performing 4 emergency stops, I decided to restart because I would be more than 6 minutes behind schedule and it would only gt worse on the later D&C parts of the journey.

So I restarted, and this time the D&C train didn't even depart from the station at which I boarded it after a 5 minute wait, so I took the train int he opposite direction and went home.

Is it part of LU's charter to be horibly delayed on a Wednesday or something?

CrunchySaviour wrote:
Is it part of LU's charter to be horibly delayed on a Wednesday or something?

I thought it was part of LU's charter to be delayed everyday!