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This guy raced the Luas from one stop to another and filmed the whole thing

What an achievement.

Sep 12th 2017, 4:04 PM 5,651 Views 1 Comment

YOU’VE DEFINITELY SEEN this exceptionally viral video from the London underground on Facebook at some point.

It shows a man running up from the Mansion House tube stop to race it to Cannon Street. He makes in with a second to spare.

Videographer Robin J Kavanagh decided we needed to test this out on the Luas

He challenged his mate Conor to race them from the Central Park Luas stop to Sandyford, and of course he took the challenge.

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If you want to see if he makes it spoiler free, be our guest:
https://www.facebook.com/robnjk/videos/1604410612926104

That’s a distance of just under 2km, or a journey of about four minutes for the Luas.

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Conor legged it off with a GoPro on his head and fight in his heart

Did he make it?

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Well, it wasn’t looking good for a while

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But he eventually caught up

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The hero we didn’t know we needed

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This guy raced the Luas from one stop to another and filmed the whole thing

What an achievement.

Videographer Robin J Kavanagh decided we needed to test this out on the Luas