scrxisi wrote: 3) All 15 always print to screen so whoever draws it will see it & You could log all stations drawn and know in advance. Yes and yes. But they wouldn't, and I don't!
Whoever prints off the stations could be accused of doing this, whatever system you use. It's all down to trust really and I personally would get no pleasure from cheating and taking a sneaky peek in advance. If people take it that seriously then the only way to be sure would be to ask someone not taking part to turn up with the sealed envelopes, but I think that's taking things to far.
In the past I always asked one of my staff to print off the file for me so I didn't get to see.
palkanetoijala31 wrote:She did one but i can get to copy more if u wish her to
Yes please, it's nice for each competitor/team to have their own copy as with previous R15's.
If Sarah is happy to run-off 10 copies and place in envelopes I would think that would be sufficient. Will that be okay?
Well the weather looks set fair, sunny 8 degrees down to -zero in the evening and a 7 miles per hour Northerly wind....
Lets hope Andi & Sara have drawn a christmas cracker of a set of stations for us.....
See you at Wood Lane
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I be there Kevin so i am as clueless as urself what will come out.?hopefully good my father to ensure discression has printed 10 copies of the sheet sara originally produced all i know it includes wood lane.
Going Underground wrote:...down to -zero in the evening...
Minus zero?!
Does below freezing sound better?
Twice former full network GWR holder and former Zone 1 Olympic and World Record holder with The Raven and Soupie Tube personality of the year 2009 Twice Winter Olympic Biathlon Gold Medalist with The Beer Baron 2008 All Lines Olympic Gold
Well here are the results from the W.A.N.K.E.R World Area Nobhead Keeper of Efficient Records
The Random 15 December 6th 2008 the results are
1. Peter Smyth 3h 04m 48 secs
2. Matt Nunn & Steven Karahan 3h 09m 56 secs
3. Kevin Brown & Matt Scrivin 3h 12m 29 secs
4. Anthony & Jaime Brown 3h 12m 47 secs
5. Andy James & al ( although lost halfway through challenge) 3h 26m 56 secs
6. Martin Hazel 3h 29m 37 secs
7. Richie G & Jack 3h 52m 09 secs
Well Peter keeps his good streak alive and now tops the table taking over from Martin (Tangy) who had a poor showing im sure some one will update the table in another thread.
The stations that came out were
Wood Lane
Camden Town
Notting Hill Gate
Kensal Green
East Putney
Shepherds Bush
Hammersmith H&C
Farringdon
Warren Street
Brixton
Moorgate
Willesden Green
Holborn
Liverpool Street
Hampstead
A good set of stations and very pleased with our time and a place on the rostrum
Sir Scrivens random generator did us proud......
Nice to see a good turn out again, these Saturday R15's certainly seem popular....
Enjoyed the Xmas party and the darts despite damaging my right hand ligaments grabbing a rail in changing direction at LIverpool Street Met Central Line.....
Merry Christmas to all I forgot to say it too yesterday....
Twice former full network GWR holder and former Zone 1 Olympic and World Record holder with The Raven and Soupie Tube personality of the year 2009 Twice Winter Olympic Biathlon Gold Medalist with The Beer Baron 2008 All Lines Olympic Gold
WOOD LANE
H&C to HAMMERSMITH (H&C)
295 bus to SHEPHERDS BUSH
Central to NOTTING HILL GATE
District to EAST PUTNEY
run to Putney (NR)
SWT to Vauxhall
Victoria to BRIXTON
Victoria to Oxford Circus
Central to LIVERPOOL STREET (via HOLBORN)
Circle to Euston Square (via FARRINGDON, MOORGATE)
run to WARREN STREET
Northern to HAMPSTEAD (via CAMDEN TOWN)
run to Finchley Road
Jubilee to WILLESDEN GREEN
Jubilee to Kilburn
run to Brondesbury
Overground to Willesden Junction
Bakerloo to KENSAL GREEN
The Scrivens / Brown pairing decided to work around the couple of footie matches so our route was;
H & C Hammersmith
Run to Hammesmith Picc Line
Earls Court (long wait)
E. Putney
Earls Court (longish wait)
HSK where we just caught a circle by the skin of our teeth
NHG
Shepherds Bush
Run Shepherds Bush Overground
Willesden Junction (very long wait for overground no Bakerloo in sight )
Kensal Green
Run Kensal Rise Overground
Brondesbury
Run Kilburn
Willesden Green
Bus Golders Green
Warren Street
Run to Euston Sq
Liverpool St
Oxford Circus
Brixton
As ever the usual combo of buses / running / overground....
Twice former full network GWR holder and former Zone 1 Olympic and World Record holder with The Raven and Soupie Tube personality of the year 2009 Twice Winter Olympic Biathlon Gold Medalist with The Beer Baron 2008 All Lines Olympic Gold
Well, like the rest, we went from WOOD LANE to HAMMERSMITH, but lost the rest of them between the H&C and Picc stations - people in the way of two runners, then traffic issues between the two stations. Sill, we Districted it to Earl's Court, where we caught up with the rest, borrowing a Brown's A-Z to check out a strategm for later on, and joining the rest on a District Line to EAST PUTNEY. We stayed on to Wimbledon, then SWTd it to Vauxhall, to take the Victoria Line to BRIXTON and double-backed (on the same train) to Stockwell.
It was while on the SWT train that we realised the reason why all the rest alighted at East Putney, but ne'er mind...
The Northern Line was our next service, as far as MOORGATE - a cross platform train at Stockwell with, what I have been told is known in the trade as a 'sexy change', was scuppered slightly by a long, and slightly pointless-seeming wait at Oval - where we then went out to LIVERPOOL STREET and returned to Euston Square (can't recall whether it was H&C or Circle) via FARRINGDON for the run to WARREN STREET.
Getting the correct Northern Line branch for HAMPSTEAD was a bonus... meant we didn't have to change at CAMDEN TOWN, and just pass through. Unfortunately, our plan up this part rested on the fact that we were hoping for a bus connection between Hampstead and either West Hampstead or, even better, Willesden Green. Unfortunately, such was not possible, so we headed down towards Finchley Road, possibly getting lost on route, and as a bus came up as we were at a bus stop, we decided to catch that. By this time, we had lost the will to run having realised we'd lost anyway with the SWT, and now this, fiasco, so we didn't. We wound up at Swiss Cottage, and took the Jubilee to WILLESDEN GREEN, double-backed to West Hampstead, to take the Overground to Willesden Junction.
The original plan was to take the Bakerloo to Kensal Green and back, Overground it to Shepherds Bush, and Central into the City again. However, given the timetable of the Overground, we took the Bakerloo to KENSAL GREEN, continued into Paddington where we spent far too long waiting for a Circle to take us to NOTTING HILL GATE where we changed to a Central to SHEPHERD'S BUSH, double-backed to HOLBURN.
Anyway... I think that's right... I left the route planning to Jack... (can I say that before this R15, I didn't know Jack? :p)
Wood Lane
Hammersmith (H&C)
RUN
Hammersmith (Dis/Pic)
Earls Court
East Putney
West Brompton
Shepherds Bush (LO)
RUN
Shepherds Bush (Cen)
Liverpool Street
Euston Square
RUN
Warren Street
Hampstead
BUS 46
Swiss Cottage
Willesden Green
West Hampstead (Jub)
RUN
West Hampstead (LO)
Willesden Junction
Oxford Circus
Brixton
What I thought was a good route in my mind obviously wasn't very good!
I, like all the other teams headed south to H'smith (H&C). I then did a cross platform connection onto a train waiting to head back north (after 6 minutes) back up to Wood Lnae where I ran the short way to White City and got on a train (from the centre road) one stop to SHEP. BUSH. I got bit bogged down here with a crowd of people trying to exit the station but knew I had time to get on the 1342 NLL.
I took the NLL to West Brompton and changing to the District onwards to EAST PUTNEY. It was here where I could of run to Putney Central and took SWT to Vauxhall or head up to NHG. I chose the latter with a 5 minute wait!
Up through NHG to Padd where I changed to the Bakerloo (which was still mashed) as all I got on the display was Queen's Park 3min, Queens Park 10min, Queen's Park 13min! Took the first of these up to Queen's Park (terminating in the southbound platform)! It was a further 8 minutes before I could get a train to Willesden Junction through KENSAL GREEN. This being the NLL from Euston.
Ran up to high level at Willesden to get the 1459 to West Hampstead (but departed 1504 due to late running crew change). It was only when the train just pulled away from Brondesbury that I thought to myself "Plonker, I should of ran to Kilburn!"
Good cross paltform change at WILL. GREEN (less than a minute) down to Finchley Road for the daunting uphill run to Hampstead. Just as I exited the station a 13 drove past, so I gave chase up the bus lane after it to the next stop! Got off two stops later outside the NLL station to start the run up the hill towards HAMPSTEAD.
I was hoping for a direct ChX train and it was, so avoided the change at CAMDEN to WARREN ST. Usual short run to Euston Square where I just missed a Circle but a H&C was right behind, boarded this via FARRINGDON and MOORGATE to LIV ST. From here it was a good change onto the Central Line via HOLBORN to Oxford Circus then to BRIXTON to finish.
I wonder what would of happened If I would of ran to Putney Central and took SWT to Vauxhall....
Central Line..... 
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