#33 Climb Monument

311 steps up and 311 steps down. Some amazing views from the top. I even got myself a certificate!

#13 Live life for a day on facebook

Yesterday I woke up and spent the day on Facebook. My original intention was to be very explicit about the minor details of what I did during the day (i.e. I'm walking down the stairs now, I'm looking in the dridge now etc), but on getting some feedback from friends I knew I didn't want to annoy my facebook friends too much! Maybe by bed time I was beginning to push the boundaries of my friends' good natures. One facebook friend commented on my final post for the day, "Well done for achieving it but I must admit it will be a relief to be able to easily find other people's posts on facebook!". Enough said.

So to the stats:
19 status updates, 9 photo uploads, 29 likes and 29 comments. And of course an unknown number of annoyed facebook friends!

#26 Run the Circle Line

So a couple of months of training towards this day put me in a good position for attempting and completing this challenge. At times (even on the morning of the run) I doubted whether I would be able to achieve this goal. But in short, I did it! I prioritised documenting the challenge with a photo on each platform, and because of this I had to stop half way to re-charge my mobile phone. But anyway - to the statistics:

I calculate the run to be 33.44km in distance. In all reality though, taking platform tunnels and steps into consideration, it would have been about 35km - very good training for the London to Brighton in just over 4 weeks!

Running time was 6 hours precisely. 3 hours in the first half, then another 3 hours in the second.

The Circle Line visits 37 stations in total. 2 of these are visited twice (Paddington and Edware Road). I also visited these stations twice. There was one station though I did not visit as the station was closed for the week. I did however, run right past it - Cannon Street.

#15 Zorbing

Today Owen and I went zorbing in Cornwall before heading back to London after our few days away. Unfortunately we didn't get a video of it, but I've found one on youtube from the same venue so you can get a good idea of exactly what we went through. It was a very disorientating experience.. white, green, white, green, white, green... the white being the clouds, the green being the grass on the hill we were rolling down.

#16 Ride the UK's Longest Zipwire

490 metres long. 40 miles per hour. 50 odd metres high. 5 hour drive from London to Cornwall. A large element of this activity was to unreservedly throw myself off the side of a cliff, and that's exactly what I did. I tried not to get myself too excited by nerves, but it didn't so a few sneaking in anyway. After the initial jump/step (watch the video and you decide what it was) it wasn't much more than a ride over a disused quarry. The only fear at that stage was how they plan on stopping me - it was too far to see from the starting point.