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The Tube Challenge is the Guinness World Record for the Fastest time to travel to all London Underground stations. Participants do not have to travel along all ''lines'' to complete the challenge, merely travel to all the ''stations'' on the system. Participants may connect between stations on foot, or by using other forms of public transport. , the record for fastest completion was held by Ronan McDonald and Clive Burgess of the United Kingdom, who completed the challenge in 16 hours, 14 minutes and 10 seconds on 19 February 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fastest Time to Travel to all Underground Stations )〕 ==History== The first recorded challenge took place in 1959. Although many people have attempted the challenge and held the record since, they have not always been credited in the record books. In the earlier days of the challenge, participants were permitted to use private forms of transport (such as a car or bike) to move between stations. This led to times of less than 16 hours in some earlier records, and Guinness later changed the rules to ban private transport. The following is a list of record holders that have appeared in the printed edition of the ''Guinness Book of Records''. The record did not appear in the book until its eighth edition. Between the 1960s and 1990s the record regularly appeared in the ''Guinness Book of Records'', initially listed under "Underground Railways – circuit of", but later just under "Railways" and then "Trains". Since the change of publishing style of the book from the 2001 edition onwards, the record – although frequently broken – has only once appeared in printed form, in the 2008 edition. More recent records have tended to be published online instead. Since the record has not regularly been published in the book, there have been two broad configurations on the system – one for 275 stations, and one for 270 once the East London Line was no longer part of the network. On 3 April 2002 Jack Welsby set a new record time for 275 stations by traversing the system in 19 hours, 18 minutes and 45 seconds. Welsby made just one attempt, starting his route at Heathrow and finishing at Amersham. This time was beaten on 4 May 2004 by Geoff Marshall and Neil Blake who achieved a new record time of 18 hours 35 minutes and 43 seconds. Their attempt began on the first train out of Amersham on the Metropolitan Line and ended at Upminster, and took Guinness World Records four months to ratify it. A previous attempt had been broadcast on TV as part of ''The Tube'' TV series and another attempt had been televised as part of an ITV1 programme ''Metroland: Race Around the Underground'' on 16 October 2003. Although this time stood for two years before being beaten by just five seconds, it was not until Håkan Wolgé and Lars Andersson (both from Sweden) set a new record time for 275 stations that it appeared in the ''Guinness World Records'' Book again, in the 2008 edition.〔 They set a new record of 18 hours, 25 minutes and 3 seconds, on 26 September 2006. Changes to the total number of stations meant that the record was 'reset' and broken three more times over a two-year period until when in October 2008 Wood Lane station opened, and the network settled at 270 stations. The first holders with 270 stations were Andi James, Martin Hazel and Steve Wilson who on the 14 December 2009 achieved a record time of 16 hours, 44 minutes and 16 seconds. TfL used this route four years later as part of the Art on the Underground labyrinth project to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, installing permanent designs at stations in the same order that the world record route had taken, and later appeared in an ''Information Capital'' article. This record remained unbeaten for 17 months, until Marc Gawley from Denton, Greater Manchester set a new time of 16 hours, 29 minutes and 57 seconds on 21 April 2011. As a fast marathon runner, he revealed that he did not use any buses on the day, preferring instead to make all his connections on foot. Gawley's record was beaten just thirty-seven days later, when James and Wilson completed the challenge in just 44 seconds faster, setting a new record time of 16 hours, 29 minutes and 13 seconds on 27 May 2011.〔〔 This record stood for over two years until August 2013, before being broken by previous record holder Geoff Marshall who along with Anthony Smith, completed the challenge in 16 hours, 20 minutes and 27 seconds, the record time was then published for the first time in seven years in the ''Guinness World Records'' book 2015. Clive Burgess and Ronan McDonald set a new world record time of 16 hours, 14 minutes and 10 seconds on the 21 February 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tube Challenge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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