Guild Wars 2

Im running my new char to lvl 80 and realized ive hit lvl 60 without doing any of the storyquest. Obviously im not at the start but would it be faster to do the story quest or just carry on with clearing maps?

This was mine http://s1359.beta.photobucket.com/user/sronos/media/GW2Diorama_zpsa13ede9d.jpg.html Sadly i ran out of time so i took extremely bad pics and had to edit everything on paint ::( I was hoping for honorable mention but couldnt even get that >__> If only i had 1 more day