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GWR III - Thursday 5th April
Posted: 04 Apr 2007, 10:43
by Going Underground
The Starkey/Brown partnership will be out there doing our thing again on 5th April.......
We are hoping that some live updates will be posted here, we just need to persuade K9 to action for us......
K9 is kindly doing a food drop for us so there may be a 3 - 4 hours gap in information from early afternoon onwards......
Just hope my dodgy back and knees can last the day......
Posted: 04 Apr 2007, 17:11
by snudge27
Good luck mate! Hope you make it. Will this be the same route as last time or have you managed to streamline it even more?
You can say that about the knee again though - some colleagues and I are planning a run for early June, and my knee is going to be a huge deciding factor!
Posted: 04 Apr 2007, 17:15
by Going Underground
uefacup81 wrote:Good luck mate! Hope you make it. Will this be the same route as last time or have you managed to streamline it even more?
You can say that about the knee again though - some colleagues and I are planning a run for early June, and my knee is going to be a huge deciding factor!
Cheers for that.....
One or two little tweeks in our route from last time and we have 4 or 5 different options of how we may do things on the day.....
Posted: 05 Apr 2007, 08:25
by K9
First report from Starkey/Brown, lost 5 minutes at Uxbridge due to train pulling out on reaching there, but they still have 1 hour in hand. W
eather good but a bit chilly.
Posted: 05 Apr 2007, 09:25
by tubeguru
How do they have "an hour in hand"?
Posted: 05 Apr 2007, 09:57
by gasman
Ahaha, I think you may have divulged a vital clue there!
Uxbridge by 7:25, and wasn't there some talk about the Harrow run being overrated a week or so back? I guess that means they've headed from Harrow straight to Uxbridge - but then how do you pick off both the southbound Central and Piccadilly lines without doubling back horribly? Hmm, interesting...
(edit) Doh, the timestamps here are an hour off aren't they? All bets are off then...
Posted: 05 Apr 2007, 11:02
by tubeguru
Ah, thanks for pointing that out ...
You need to go to youre profile (top of screen) and change your timezone to GMT + 1 hour.
Ta da.
Posted: 05 Apr 2007, 11:45
by editorsfoot
Well they seem to have nice weather for it, although the top of the Northern Line is suspended at present. Any more updates?
Posted: 05 Apr 2007, 17:45
by K9
Latest update. Starkey/Brown at present heading for Upminster they have 25 mins to spare before record pace. Food drop went according to plan.
Time is now 1745
Posted: 05 Apr 2007, 20:00
by K9
At 2000 the Starkey/Brown partnership are still ahead by 20 mins of the record time.
Posted: 05 Apr 2007, 21:02
by hwolge
Just managed to get hold of an internet connection. Looking good so far! I'm just contemplating a new attempt... We'll see. Anyway, best of luck for the finish!
/HÃ¥kan
Posted: 05 Apr 2007, 21:15
by K9
Starkey/Brown GWR attempt has been aborted due to unforeseen circumstances.
Posted: 05 Apr 2007, 21:25
by K9
Thank you very much for your good wishes but as you can see they have just aborted the attempt, i'm sure they will post why later either tonight or tomorrow. The decision was taken for a good reason, so its good night from K9.
Posted: 06 Apr 2007, 00:00
by Soup Dragon
Evening all, I've just got home to Lightwater and stopped the clock running when I arrived here. 18h 22m 59s.
I arrived at Hatton Cross having visited 257 stations (I think!) in a time of of 17h 55m 46s. Not sure what time Kevin, Jamie and John got home as we all took different routes. Cheers Antony
Posted: 06 Apr 2007, 00:07
by Soup Dragon
tubeguru wrote:How do they have "an hour in hand"?
We still had an hour in hand based on our projected time compared to Hakans record.