Random stats no.14; Distance

Emo the Fast Fish's mini-move yesterday reminded me that I hadn't mentioned any distance stats for a while, so here's a quick note on longest and shortest moves:

Longest single move is 1775.6 miles by greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog emCache Racer.
Shortest single move is 0.3 miles by my own Emo the Fast Fish emCache Racer.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for total distances travelled by each EmCache TB race entry.

Update! Emo back in the swim of things

Emo the Fast Fish emCache Racer was collected yesterday by shropshire seekers who then dropped him in the next cache that they came across, adding three-tens of a mile to his total distance travelled. It all counts!

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Random stats no.13; Finders

Not counting Discovered logs, a total of 47 cachers (including DieBaeren whom I believe are holding peachleaf's GeoCoin) have collected EmCache Travel Bug 2009/2010 Race entries, including 9 EmCache members, 6 of whom have trackables of their own in the race.

OnlyMeUK, FiddleMad and stevo185 are the only EmCache members without a trackable in the race to have collected an entry.

Astrollamas, Coppers Lot and FiddleMad are the only cachers to have collected more than one racer.

Update! Cachehopper back in the East Midlands

I just couldn't bring myself to place RascalGaskells' Cachehopper EmCache Racer TB in a puzzle cache, so dropped in this appropriate cache it in Nottinghamshire instead!

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Random stats no.12; Caches visited

Katie 2000's EmCache Racer "Needles" has visited 8 different caches (excluding the starting event cache), followed by Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh which has visited 7.

If lgxkls' two dinosaur Travel Bugs are counted as one, then JohnnyBGoode, Sukygoeswandering and late starter niknrich are the only EmCache members whose race entries have only visited one cache.

Update! Greedy Green Frog extends it's TB race lead

Greedy Green Frog Emcache Racer, owned by greedygreenfrog, has extended it's race lead by hopping into this popular TB Hotel in Germany.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Itchys' Crown Jewels collected after spending a whole month in Kennel Bridge

Itchys' Crown Jewels Travel Bug has been collected by Welsh cacher and blogger Tortoiseshell, whose blog can be read here.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Random stats no.11; How far away now?

If you scroll down to the bottom of this page you will see the current distance travelled of all entries in the EmCache 2009-2010 TB race, but how far are the trackables (that are not in the hands of a cacher) from their starting point?

Considering only Travel Bugs and GeoCoins that are at present resting in caches, the one furthest away from the starting point is peachleaf's emcache Racer at 371.9 miles, while the closest is Oceanblue's Emcache racer - Pat's Special Delivery, still just 3.3 miles away from Bradgate.

The other Travel Bugs and GeoCoins currently in caches are;
Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug, 357.2 miles away
The Web Rat's emCache Racer, 258.6 miles away
Itchy's Crown Jewels, 117.5 miles away
Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh, 91.7 miles away
Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!!, 80.3 miles away
lgxkls' John's Stegasaurus, 73.8 miles away
Garland Gang's JACKO, 73.6 miles away
GeoPirate4's Definitive GC, 61.2 miles away
Slightly Tall Paul's Emo the Fast Fish, 39.2 miles away

All other entries are currently being held by cachers.

UK counties visited map updated: Version 6

Time for a sixth version of the EmCache Travel Bug Race 2009/2010 UK Counties visited map, current as of noon on November 23rd 2009, adapted from one found here.

Two new counties visited by an EmCache TB race entry in the last five days, Greater London and Surrey, to add to Cambridgeshire, Ceredigion, Clwyd, Cornwall, Derbyshire, East Sussex, Greater Manchester, The Isle of Wight, Kent, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire and West Yorkshire. The blue is spreading!

As for individual Travel Bug efforts, uk89camaro's Piston head Pete and co-pilot Dave, who is 'armless Travel Bug are ahead having bagged six counties, starting in Leicestershire and then visiting Staffordshire, Clwyd, Derbyshire, East Sussex and Surrey.

Update! Two (or three?) Racers picked-up

Piston head Pete, uk89camaro's emCache TB Racer has been collected by whitefriar (although curiously not Dave) and niknrich's Nosey Pup TB has been collected by fellow emCache member geohunter-x. Additionally, I believe that peachleaf's GeoCoin racer has been collected by German cachers diebaeren, but have yet to confirm this.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! LOUIS' VROOM VROOM vrooms up 1 place

Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! has moved up one place in the EmCache TB race by adding 7.4 miles to it's toal distance travelled, thanks to maxkim placing it in this multi-cache in West Yorkshire.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh reaches London

Cacher simonwarnes has dropped Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh emCache Racer Travel Bug into this cache in Greater London near the start of the M4 motorway.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Piston head Pete now in Surrey

uk89camaro's Piston head Pete (with Dave) is, courtesy of natterjacktoad, now in this cache close to the M25 in Surrey.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Look what I've found...

If you don't recognise the above Travel Bug, it is RascalGaskells' EmCache Racer - Cachehopper which I collected today from South Yorkshire. Now where should I drop her???

Update! Peachleaf's GeoCoin is latest TB race entry to visit Germany

Germany is proving a magnetic draw to emCache TB race entries, as peachleaf's Definitive GeoCoin becomes the third one to visit the country, having been placed into this cache in the Nordrhein-Westfalen region.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Piston head Pete on the road again

uk89camaro's Piston head Pete (& Dave) Travel Bug has been collected by Surrey-based cacher natterjacktoad

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Race leader Greedy Green Frog collected

EmCache TB race leader greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog has been collected from the TB hotel that it was resting in by German cacher luvo1966.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

UK counties visited map updated

Time for a fifth version of the EmCache Travel Bug Race 2009/2010 UK Counties visited map, current as of noon on November 18th 2009, adapted from one found here.

Just one new county visited by an EmCache TB race entry in the last two weeks, East Sussex, to add to Cambridgeshire, Ceredigion, Clwyd, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, The Isle of Wight, Kent, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire and West Yorkshire.

Update! The Web Rat scurries into 2nd place

Dutch cacher Froodoo has placed The Web Rat's Emcache Racer GeoCoin into this puzzle cache in The Netherlands, adding 1252 miles to it's total distance travelled and moving it up to 2nd place in the EmCache TB race.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! John's stegasaurus plays leapfrog

RascalGaskells have placed lgxkls' John's stagasaurus Travel Bug into this cache in Oxfordshire, leaping it up to 13th place in the EmCache TB race.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Nosey Pup finally goes walkies

Giving everyone else a two-month head start, niknrich have placed their Nosey Pup into this cache in Leicestershire, owned by emCache member Geohunter-X.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Piston head Pete (& Dave) visit Beachy Head

UK89camaro's emCache Racer - Piston head Pete and co-pilot Dave, who is 'armless have been placed into this cache in East Sussex, adding sufficient milage to not only put it into the lead of EmCache TB race entries that have not left the UK, but surpass the distance covered of a Travel Bug that is currently in Germany!

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! RascalGaskells' TB hops back towards home

Explorer Scout has placed Rascalgaskells' emCache Racer - Cachehopper into this cache in South Yorkshire, 20.9 miles nearer to it's East Midlands home.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! RascalGaskells' Cachehopper scouted out

RascalGaskells' EmCache Racer - Cachehopper has been collected by Huddersfield-based cacher Explorer Scout.

In other news, EmCache member Nottinghamman has collected his Musket Travel Bug from the Newtown Linford September Event.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for current race standings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after an entry's milage means that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Emo the Fast Fish swims another 9.3 miles

My own emCache Racer - Emo the Fast Fish has been placed by shortmat into this long-lived cache near Stafford.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for updated race standings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Random stats no.10; How far away now?

If you scroll down to the bottom of this page you will see the current distance travelled of all entries in the EmCache 2009-2010 TB race, but how far are the trackables (that are not in the hands of a cacher) from their starting point?

Interestingly the distance leader greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog is also the furthest away at 375.2 miles from Bradgate, while the closest is Oceanblue's Pat's Special Delivery which is only 3.3 miles away from where it started!

The other Travel Bugs and GeoCoins currently in caches are;
Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug, 357.2 miles away
Itchy's Crown Jewels, 117.5 miles away
RascalGaskells' Cachehopper, 75 miles away
Garland Gang's JACKO, 73.6 miles away
GeoPirate4's Definitive GC, 61.2 miles away

All other entries are currently being held by cachers.

Update! John's stegasaurus in the hands of rascalgaskells

Just a quick update to confirm that John's stegasaurus emcache TB racer was collected from the EmCache Willington Event by EmCache members rasccalgaskells

Update! New Race Leader!!

Greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog EmCache Racer has been dropped into this cache in Wuppertal, Germany, adding 1775.6 miles to become the first EmCache TB race entry to pass the 3000 miles travelled mark. This gives greedygreenfrog the race lead on distance travelled, although the TB now down in second place has completed the requirement to return to the UK after travelling abroad.

In other news, both Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! and my own EmCache Racer - Emo The Fast Fish have been collected from the caches that they were resting in, and niknrich have finally retrieved EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup from the EmCache September Event Cache.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for updated race standings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, while two ** shows that it has has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! John's stegasaurus placed into tonight's emCache Event

EmCache member stevo185 has collected lgxkls' John's stegasaurus emCache TB racer from Brookside Resurrection and placed it in tonight's EmCache Event at Willington, enabling anyone who attends to collect this little dinosaur racer.

Update! Karon's Promise collected by Canaries72

Karon's Promise EmCache TB Racer has been collected from georges first bike ride- by Canaries72.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for current race positions. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after an TB's milage means that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and is currently back in the UK.

Random stats no.9: Countries visited

All entrants in the EmCache 2009-2010 TB race started in the UK, four have visited one overseas nation and just one, The Web Rat's EmCache Racer Definitive GeoCoin has visited two overseas countries, The Netherlands and Portugal.

Random stats no.8; Caches visited

Katie 2000's EmCache Racer "Needles" has visited 8 different caches (excluding the starting event cache), followed by Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh which has visited six.

If lgxkls' two dinosaur Travel Bugs are counted as one, then JohnnyBGoode and Sukigoeswandering are the only EmCache members whose race entries have only visited one cache.

Random stats no.7: Finders

Not counting Discovered logs, a total of 34 cachers have collected EmCache Travel Bug 2009/2010 Race entrants, including 5 EmCache members, 3 of whom have trackables of their own in the race.

OnlyMeUK and FiddleMad are the only EmCache members without a trackable in the race to have collected an entrant.

Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO is the only race entrant to have been entered into an Event Cache.

UK Counties visited map updated

Time for a fourth version of the EmCache Travel Bug Race 2009/2010 UK Counties visited map, current as of noon on November 5th 2009, adapted from one found here

New counties visited are Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Greater Manchester and Lincolnshire, to add to Ceredigion, Clwyd, Derbyshire, The Isle of Wight, Kent, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire and West Yorkshire.

A total of 17 counties visited in less than two months!

Update! peachleaf's EmCache Racer GeoCoin picked up

Peachleaf's EmCache Racer GeoCoin has been collected by German geocachers Team Bongo.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for current race placings.

Update! The Great Galaxy Seekers' Big Ben GeoCoin Visits Cornwall

Garland Gang left The Great Galaxy Seekers' Big Ben GeoCoin in this cache in Cornwall, from where it has been retrieved by cacher Gorraine. As a result of it's trek to Cornwall, this EmCache TB race entrant is now heading the "not travelled overseas yet" section of the race.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for current race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a trackable's milage means that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Mrs Web Rat's Emcache Racer found

Mrs Web Rat's Definitive GeoCoin had been reported missing from the cache that it was logged into, and now we know why. The leckie boys collected the coin three weeks ago, but have only just logged their find.

As usual, scroll down to bottom of this page for current race standings.

Update! LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! vrooms to Leeds

Yorkshire cacher windswept has placed Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! in this cache in West Yorkshire, adding 18.8 miles to it's total distance travelled.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after an entrant's milage means that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and is currently back in the UK.

Update! Pirate ahoy on the River Nene

Geopirate4's EmCache Racer GeoCoin has been placed in this cache alongside the River Nene, making it the first EmCache TB race entry to visit Lincolnshire.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for current race placings.

Update! Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh TB picked up

Geohunter-X's emcache racer (Horsey Neigh Neigh) has been collected by simonwarnes, the owner of the cache that it was resting in during routine cache maintenance.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for current race positions. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher.

Update! peachleaf's emCache Racer adds 104.7 miles

Dutch cacher superstein has placed peachleaf's emCache Racer Definitive GeoCoin in this cache on the island of Ameland just off the northern coast of The Netherlands, adding 104.7 miles to it's total distance travelled, moving it up one position to 4th overall.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for current race positions. One * after an entrants milage means that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Karon's Promise is first emCache race bug in Cambridgeshire

lgxkls' Karon's Promise emcache TB racer has been placed into this cache in Cambridgeshire by XTrailers, making it 15 UK Counties visited so far by the entrants in EmCache's 2009 / 2010 TB race.

Scroll down to the bottom of this page for current race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher.