Zone 1 Challenge : CANCELLED

[tubeguru]

No, Geoff's lying - it really IS cancelled because I can't make it now.

[CrunchySaviour]

I'm sure there will be a "suitable replacement" for you, TUBEGURU.

Prepare Zone 1 for the Zone 1 Master Masker...

(I will be running fast but I won't be TOO disappointed if I don't win - after all, there's a lot of competition, most of which is of very high calibre!)

[tubeguru]

Oh come off it - you want to win just as much as some of the others do

[Senji]

I'd love to win, but I doubt I'm going to.

My personal target is a time under 3hrs. I'll be happy with anything under 3hr20, or if I do reasonably well compared to everyone else if we all take longer.

[Yorkie]

Who'll post the winner here first? Will it be about 15.30?

[Senji]

I'm certainly not taking my laptop with me

Of course, I could pop into an Internet Cafe on the way back to the PUB.

Nah

[moley]

I'll see if I can arrange it for around 4.30 pm......

[CrunchySaviour]

When all this is done, I expect to see a complete list of all the competitors and their finishing times (a comprehensive results table). I will settle for nothing less. You have been warned.

[tubeguru]

Oh stop griping

A full report and everything will be posted here on Saturday once I have had the pictures developed to CD (I'm using my SLR in the pub).

So calm yourself and go and check your mask ...

[Senji]

The starting station will, of course, be the same for all of us.

I bet lots of us will finish at Vauxhall for a lot of starts, too...

[CrunchySaviour]

Observant, Senji! I've been thinking a lot about routes (as I am the obsessed one) and some of them don't end at Vauxhall...

Regarding masks, I have run out! I have one large inflexible mask which I shall be donating to a teammate, but my personal mask has become heavily soiled with about 4 weeks' use. I'll use it anyway, just because it's my trademark, whether or not it's actually doing me any good...

Of course I know you're going to post the results! Didn't I include enough obssessive comments ("I will settle for nothing less, you have been warned") to make it obvious that I was grinning while typing that?!

I'll probably give away my route, as I doubt I'll be using it again!

The elastic on the 9211 is not adjustable.

[tubeguru]

I'm not posting the results because you demanded me to. I'm posting them because it's a website about the tube challenge and the variations thereof.

And I look forward to typing your name at the bottom of the list

[CrunchySaviour]

I know that, Sir. I know that you are under no obligation to do anything that I ask (or "tell") you to. I just think that a lot of incessant, light-hearted slave-driving is quite amusing. It may not seem like much of a joke if I do it all the time, but it is a joke. Well, I'm not being entirely serious, at least. I know you don't have the time to update the site all the time; I have a site myself and I certainly don't have the time (can't be bothered) to update that every day or even every time anything interesting happens in the House of Steel.

*Looks back*

Arrgh, of course I was being unreasonable when I said "I expect to see a comprehensive results table". I don't expect to see anything! It will be nice to see the results, but don't think that I'll be annoyed if you put them online a couple of days late.

PS. I know that you, Neil and Geoff have formulated a plan to trip me over or prevent me from getting on a train in order to push me down the results list. I will not stand for it.

(^That was a joke.)

[tubeguru]

No, we're going to twang the elastic on your mask!

Tee hee.

[CrunchySaviour]

I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those meddling world record holders....