The third annual Zone 1 challenge took place on May 19th 2006. Jack Welsby pulled the starting station - Sloane Square, just two away from last years St. James Park - from that hat, and as per last year people set off from that station, most using 'circular' routes to try and get their way around all 62 Zone 1 stations as fast as possible.

The main incident of the day thought was the closure of part of the Victoria line meaning that this delayed a lot of people - and some people/teams were unable to finish at all! Including last years winners ...

The winning team with 2 hours, 51 minutes and 54 on the clock was the second fastest Zone 1 challenge time ever recorded. The whole top 10 is here.

The final standings, times and teams though, are as follows:

1st - ******** aka 'Waveform' (David Scard, Ric Brackenbury, Andrew Baker)

2 hours, 51 minutes, 54 seconds

The only sub-three hour time - presumably because they got the Victoria Line out of the way early on and were not affected by its closure!

2nd - Tangy's Tube Trotters (Martin Hazel & Steve Karahan)

3 hours, 0 minutes, 14 seconds

3rd - Monster Raving Bakerloony Party

3 hours, 15 minutes, 41 seconds

4th - Pasty Power (Damien Cook)

3 hours, 16 minutes, 37 seconds

5th equal - I'd rather run than take the Circle (John Stark)

3 hours, 18 minutes, 44 seconds

"I'm not sure why my route was so rubbish", reflects John - "I did have a twelve minute wait at Bayswater, and six minute waits at Earls Court, Euston and High Street Kensington, so what can you expect? Please don't mention Bayswater to me ever again."

 

 

5th equal- Team Needing Tardis (Kevin Brown, Jamie Brown, Antony Brown)

3 hours, 18 minutes, 44 seconds

They originally arrived at Vauxhall at around 2:58 in, and just needed to get to Pimlico to complete the challenge. However they arrived at the station it was closed. They met Hakan who told them the station would be closed for at least an hour. But not wanting to quit, they decided to catch a bus to Pimlico and by the time they had, the line had re-opened, and so they hoppd on the first train back to Vauxhall.

7th - Snow White & The Seven Sisters (James Gommon, Rosie Gommon & David Williams)

3 hours, 21 minutes, 0 seconds

8th - The Autistic and The Bioplar (Samuel Robinson & Nicola Grant)

3 hours, 27 minutes, 27 seconds

 

 

 

 

9th - Zone One-derers (Chris Presswell, Hannah, Pete Lupton & Jon)

3 hours, 29 minutes, 55 seconds

10th - Roundelabout (Alan Tanaman)

3 hours, 40 minutes, 0 seconds

11th - The Team with No Name (Edmund Craske & Letitita Piggott)

3 hours, 42 minutes, 4 seconds

12th - Return of the beard (Jonathan 'Senji' Amery)

4 hours, 7 minutes, 38 seconds

13th equal - 66 Feet Under (The Hares) (John Idh, Niklas Lageson)

Did not finish due to Victoria Line, missed out two.

13th equal - Geoffless and Usless (Neil Blake & Steven Knight)

Did not finish

15th - Euston, We have a problem (Ollie Lewisohn & Peter Miller)

Did not finish due to Victoria Line, missed out eight.

16th - 6 Feet Under (THe Tortoises) (Hakan Wolge, Patrick SIllen)

Did not finish due to Victoria Line, missed out too many say!

Hakan holds up the booby prize of a Zone 1/Central London journey planner

 

 

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May 19th 2006