Re: Zone 1 with the NLE
Posted: 04 Sep 2022, 21:46
I've finally been able to get around to trying again. I was hoping for July but in June, after the Leicester Tigers vs Saracens final, I fell and broke my right ankle on the way to Twickenham station. From there, I had to get back to St Pancras, train to Chesterfield and my son took me to hospital. Hadn't broken a bone before, never want to again!
Anyway, on Friday 2nd September I did
Battersea - Waterloo - London Bridge - E & C - Paddington - Paddington - Moorgate - Euston - TCR - Queensway - Bayswater - Earls Court - Sloane Sq - South Kensington - Russell Sq - Holborn - Liverpool St - Aldgate - Aldgate East - Victoria - Vauxhall
I started at 10:26 and did it in 3h 20m 37s. A whopping 1hr 23m was changes; 9 mins between the two Paddingtons and an excruciating 14 mins between Queensway and a District from Bayswater to Earls Court.
And that's it; I'm never doing this again! I've got the whole thing on recorded on my sons GoPro which I attached to my back pack and I'll be uploading this to You Tube/TikTok when I can edit it. I was never going to break any records, I AM a fat old grandad and I can't run between these stations/interchanges. I just wanted to to prove to myself at 55 I can plan and do something that I enjoy.
https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewb_67/vide ... _webapp=v1
Anyway, on Friday 2nd September I did
Battersea - Waterloo - London Bridge - E & C - Paddington - Paddington - Moorgate - Euston - TCR - Queensway - Bayswater - Earls Court - Sloane Sq - South Kensington - Russell Sq - Holborn - Liverpool St - Aldgate - Aldgate East - Victoria - Vauxhall
I started at 10:26 and did it in 3h 20m 37s. A whopping 1hr 23m was changes; 9 mins between the two Paddingtons and an excruciating 14 mins between Queensway and a District from Bayswater to Earls Court.
And that's it; I'm never doing this again! I've got the whole thing on recorded on my sons GoPro which I attached to my back pack and I'll be uploading this to You Tube/TikTok when I can edit it. I was never going to break any records, I AM a fat old grandad and I can't run between these stations/interchanges. I just wanted to to prove to myself at 55 I can plan and do something that I enjoy.
https://www.tiktok.com/@andrewb_67/vide ... _webapp=v1