You might remember me as the person who ran to [every station in zone 1 last year](https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1erc8f6/i_spent_9_hours_on_sunday_running_to_all_92/). I was back in London for a wedding this week, and decided to try another very long, transport-themed run. I got the Metropolitan Line all the way out to Chesham, the furthest station from Central London, and then turned around and ran all the way back to Trafalgar Square.
I’ve got a very longterm goal of running to every station in London (hard when you don’t live here), so I wiggled my route about the place to add on as many as possible.
Which in this run was: Chesham, Amersham, Chalfont & Latimer, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, Croxley, Watford, Moor Park, Northwood, Northwood Hills, Pinner, North Harrow, West Harrow, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Kenton, Northwick Park, South Kenton, Preston Road, Wembley Park, Neasden, Dollis Hill, Willesden Green, Kilburn, Brondesbury, West Hampstead UG/OG, West Hampstead Thameslink, Finchley Road & Frognal, Finchley Road, Swiss Cottage, South Hampstead, St. John’s Wood
I can’t seem to figure out how to add multiple pictures to my post like I did last time, so the 50 or so images I have are available on my [Strava activity here.](https://www.strava.com/activities/15169920321).
I had to start fairly late (2pm) to avoid the downpours in London yesterday morning, which meant that I finished at almost 11pm at night. (Ignore the 6:31 in the screenshot; Strava cuts out time spent stationary – shop stops, bathroom breaks, time spent at crossings. It was 8:09 start to finish). I did get fairly soaked regardless, despite waiting at a petrol station in Moor Park for the worst of it to pass.
My main takeaway from this is just how impossibly huge the London suburbs are. I started in suburbia, then ran for a solid 40km through various richer and poorer suburbs before finally spotting a single London landmark on the skyline (Wembley).
Speaking of which, there was a bit of a ropey moment when I got my bag searched at Wembley. Perhaps running along Wembley Way with a backpack while the boxing was on was not the best idea.
I reached Trafalgar Square with 62km under my belt. My longest ever run was 65km, so I added a loop of some Thames bridges to add a few decimal places onto that number.
All in all, a very hard but satisfying way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Any recommendations for which branch of the Tube I should run along next?
What was the reason for the detour to Watford? Or is that just the quickest route?
there should be more of this sort of thing. I am planning to travel the full length of every bus route that goes through central london… Ive done quite a few so far….
There’s a tube every 2 minutes, mate! /j
With how the Met line’s been recently I don’t blame you
Why?
Still quicker than driving.
I thought you’re meant to stay in zone 2 while running?
There’s a zone 9? Who knew.
Absolute legend, not easy to do and the fact you can keep coming back to London to kill these lengthy routes is insane! You’ve just done 65km and scoping more insane routes, great stuff mate.
You know there’s trains right?
But seriously that’s hugely impressive. I can’t imagine why you would want to do that, but I think it’s incredible.
8 straight hours?
You absolute mad man. But that’s an incredible achievement. Well done!
holy shit you ran past my house!! thats sick!! great achievement pal!
There’s a Zone 9?
I’ve accidentally run to Windsor
I hope you tagged the run as “easy zone 9” on strava
Top Trotting!
Are you sure you ran from zone 9? [Your Strava activity shows 92% of the run was in zone 2](https://i.imgur.com/dgMud1O.png).
Good effort, I enjoy seeing these types of silly runs!
Next time you’ll have to start from the farthest tube station throughout history 😉
Your choices are Brill or Verney Junction
solid! i ran the victoria line a few months ago. would like to run all of the lines but it gets tricky when they aren’t straight a to b
Awesome, I walked the tube network around a decade ago. But never a anything like this in a single day.
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You might remember me as the person who ran to [every station in zone 1 last year](https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1erc8f6/i_spent_9_hours_on_sunday_running_to_all_92/). I was back in London for a wedding this week, and decided to try another very long, transport-themed run. I got the Metropolitan Line all the way out to Chesham, the furthest station from Central London, and then turned around and ran all the way back to Trafalgar Square.
I’ve got a very longterm goal of running to every station in London (hard when you don’t live here), so I wiggled my route about the place to add on as many as possible.
Which in this run was: Chesham, Amersham, Chalfont & Latimer, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, Croxley, Watford, Moor Park, Northwood, Northwood Hills, Pinner, North Harrow, West Harrow, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Kenton, Northwick Park, South Kenton, Preston Road, Wembley Park, Neasden, Dollis Hill, Willesden Green, Kilburn, Brondesbury, West Hampstead UG/OG, West Hampstead Thameslink, Finchley Road & Frognal, Finchley Road, Swiss Cottage, South Hampstead, St. John’s Wood
I can’t seem to figure out how to add multiple pictures to my post like I did last time, so the 50 or so images I have are available on my [Strava activity here.](https://www.strava.com/activities/15169920321).
I had to start fairly late (2pm) to avoid the downpours in London yesterday morning, which meant that I finished at almost 11pm at night. (Ignore the 6:31 in the screenshot; Strava cuts out time spent stationary – shop stops, bathroom breaks, time spent at crossings. It was 8:09 start to finish). I did get fairly soaked regardless, despite waiting at a petrol station in Moor Park for the worst of it to pass.
My main takeaway from this is just how impossibly huge the London suburbs are. I started in suburbia, then ran for a solid 40km through various richer and poorer suburbs before finally spotting a single London landmark on the skyline (Wembley).
Speaking of which, there was a bit of a ropey moment when I got my bag searched at Wembley. Perhaps running along Wembley Way with a backpack while the boxing was on was not the best idea.
I reached Trafalgar Square with 62km under my belt. My longest ever run was 65km, so I added a loop of some Thames bridges to add a few decimal places onto that number.
All in all, a very hard but satisfying way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Any recommendations for which branch of the Tube I should run along next?
What was the reason for the detour to Watford? Or is that just the quickest route?
there should be more of this sort of thing. I am planning to travel the full length of every bus route that goes through central london… Ive done quite a few so far….
There’s a tube every 2 minutes, mate! /j
With how the Met line’s been recently I don’t blame you
Why?
Still quicker than driving.
I thought you’re meant to stay in zone 2 while running?
There’s a zone 9? Who knew.
Absolute legend, not easy to do and the fact you can keep coming back to London to kill these lengthy routes is insane! You’ve just done 65km and scoping more insane routes, great stuff mate.
You know there’s trains right?
But seriously that’s hugely impressive. I can’t imagine why you would want to do that, but I think it’s incredible.
8 straight hours?
You absolute mad man. But that’s an incredible achievement. Well done!
holy shit you ran past my house!! thats sick!! great achievement pal!
There’s a Zone 9?
I’ve accidentally run to Windsor
I hope you tagged the run as “easy zone 9” on strava
Top Trotting!
Are you sure you ran from zone 9? [Your Strava activity shows 92% of the run was in zone 2](https://i.imgur.com/dgMud1O.png).
Good effort, I enjoy seeing these types of silly runs!
Next time you’ll have to start from the farthest tube station throughout history 😉
Your choices are Brill or Verney Junction
solid! i ran the victoria line a few months ago. would like to run all of the lines but it gets tricky when they aren’t straight a to b
Awesome, I walked the tube network around a decade ago. But never a anything like this in a single day.
Legend, glad to see some Chesham love
Wowsers. I need to get off my arse
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