The Winners!

  • 1. EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup, owned by niknrich, 26086.3 miles travelled, held by 7 cachers, visited 19 caches, 8 UK counties & 3 overseas countries
  • 2. SPANK, the Monkey, owned by ITCHYthirdEYE, 5260.9 miles travelled, held by 14 cachers, visited 23 caches, 9 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • 3. Piston head Pete (& co-pilot Dave), owned by UK89Camaro, 2673.6 miles travelled, held by 13 cachers, visited 18 caches, 6 UK counties & 2 overseas countries

Monday 20 September 2010

Update! Making sense of it all (or: Why don't cachers log trackables correctly!!??)

Quite a few moves to catch up on, and I don't have all the information that I need, but as it's getting close to the end of the race, I've decided to try to put together a chronology for a couple of entries as best as I could;

Firstly; Good news for ITCHYthirdEYE, whose SPANK, the Monkey was apparently retrieved from Ellisha Says Geocoins Only by mr. meagi, who hasn't logged a find since May. I've emailed to ask him about SPANK, but have not yet received a reply. SPANK next turned up in one of mr. meagi's caches, from where it was collected by cacher Mangled99, who placed him in a cache at a busy railway station. So busy, in fact, that SPANK was collected the very same day by East Midlands cacher arewethereyet??. The result of all this is the additional of 30.8 miles to it's distance travelled.

Another entry in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race to miraculously transport itself from one cache to another is lgxkls' Karon's Promise Travel Bug, which turned up in this Welsh cache, 119.3 miles from where it should be in West Yorkshire! Karon's Promise has since been retrieved by Gloucestershire cachers Bredon Marshions. If any previously unrecorded moves turn up, additional milage can be inserted.

Much simpler is that peachleaf's GeoCoin was retrieved from the cache that it was resting in by ice-skating cacher skaterli, who placed into this puzzle cache, adding 326 miles to it's distance travelled. It has since been retrieved by Munich-based cachers MuenchnerKindl.

Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! continues it's gentle meander around Northwich by visiting this cache, barely a mile-and-a-half from where it retrieved from a week previously by stavvy.

American cacher f1shheadjr is now fishheadjr, and has placed Johnny B. Goode's You want fries with that? TB into this cache in New Hampshire, adding 115.5 miles to it's distance. Johnny's Travel Bug has now visited 6 different U.S. states.

Finally, cachers DragonsWest have gone on a mini dipping frenzy with greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog Adventure Guide, visiting an Earthcache, a CITO, a virtual cache and an event cache, adding a total of 146.8 miles to the little green fellow's milage.

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.

Wednesday 15 September 2010

Update! Pat gets a GUIDING LIGHT

oceanblue07970's Pat's Special Delivery Travel Bug has been placed into this Buckinghamshire cache, adding 33.4 miles to it's race distance, and, in other news, Garland Gang's JACKO TB has been retrieved from The Godfather by cacher deaning, who hasn't logged a find for 5½ years!

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! Peachleaf's coin on the move again

Cacher jukameda has placed peachleaf's GeoCoin into this German cache, adding 40.3 miles to it's 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 a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Tuesday 14 September 2010

Update! Horsey Neigh Neigh (slightly) closer to home

American cacher tsknmcn dipped Geohunter-x's Horsey Neigh Neigh Travel Bug into this cache, before placing it into this one, adding 371.3 miles to it's distance travelled, moving the equine bug up into 6th place overall in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug 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.

Monday 13 September 2010

Update! Mobile home

Johnny B.Goode's You want fries with that? Travel Bug has been retrieved by cacher F1shheadjr, and uk89camaro has retrieved his own Piston head Pete TB from The UK's 100th Geocaching Event and placed it into this upcoming event cache, adding 10.8 miles to it's 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 a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Multi-update; 1 drop & 5 retrievals

Firstly, Good Luck to JustAlan and Geohunter-x, new admin team at EmCache!

Now, to the update; Johnny B.Goode's You want fries with that? Travel Bug has been dropped into this cache in Massachusetts, U.S.A., adding 20.3 miles to it's total distance travelled.

No less than 5 entries in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race have been retrieved by cachers;
Geohunter-x's Horsey Neigh Neigh Travel Bug has been picked up by cacher tsknmcn after a long stop-off in an inactive Stargate.

Peachleaf's Definitive GeoCoin has been snagged by cacher jukameda, after an equally long rest in a German multi-cache.

On the other hand, lgxkls' John's stegasaurus TB spent less than a week in a cache in Essex before being lifted by cacher FantasticCat.

Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug has been grabbed by cacher Blaubeer, who claims that it is now "back in Germany".

Finally, Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! TB has been retrieved by cacher stavvy.

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.

Thursday 9 September 2010

Update! Activity for 2nd & 3rd placed Bugs

Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO has been collected from the Australian cache that he was resting in by cacher iluvtrekking and, the same day, placed in this cache 25.7 miles away.

Meanwhile, 3rd place TB, greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog has been retrieved from Tiki Travel Bug Spa by American cachers DragonsWest.

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.

Sunday 5 September 2010

Update! A place change

Cacher connie159 has placed lgxkls' John's stegasaurus into this Essex cache, adding 69.1 miles to it's race distance, enough to allow it to surge past Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! into 19th place overall in the 2009 / 2010 EmCache Travel Bug 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.

Saturday 4 September 2010

Update! Playing catch-up

Sorry for the lack of updates this week, so hold-on to your hats, here we go:
Mrs. Web Rat's Definitive GeoCoin has been retrieved from Hawaii by Italian cacher bernardi, who claims that the coin is back in Europe. Speaking of Mrs. Web Rat, hubby Tim has changed his GC.Com i.d. to The-Black-Angel, hence his entry in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race is now known as The-Black-Angel's emCache Racer.
Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! TB has been placed into this Cheshire cache, adding 3½ miles to it's distance travelled.
Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug TB has been placed into this Danish cache, adding 88.2 miles to it's distance travelled.
Finally, lgxkls' John's stegasaurus has been picked-up from the cache that it was resting in by Home-Counties based cacher connie159.

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.

Final Race Positions

  • 1. EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup (Travel Bug tag) owned by niknrich, 26086.3 miles travelled, held by 7 cachers, visited 19 caches, 8 UK counties & 3 overseas countries
  • 2. SPANK, the Monkey, owned by ITCHYthirdEYE, 5260.9 miles travelled, held by 14 cachers, visited 23 caches, 9 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • 3. Piston head Pete (& co-pilot Dave), owned by UK89Camaro, 2673.6 miles travelled, held by 13 cachers, visited 18 caches, 6 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • EMCACHE RACER JACKO (Travel Bug tag) owned by Garland Gang, 15538.2 miles travelled, held by 19 cachers, visited 22 caches, 8 UK counties & 4 overseas countries
  • Greedy Green Frog Emcache Racer (Adventure Guide tag) owned by greedygreenfrog, 11290.1 miles travelled, held by 17 cachers, visited 23 caches, 1 UK county & 4 overseas countries
  • Mrs Web Rat's emCache Racer (GeoCoin) owned by Mrs Web Rat, 8170.2 miles travelled, held by 9 cachers, visited 11 caches, 3 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • JohnnyBGoode's emCache racer - You want fries with that? (Travel Bug tag) owned by JohnnyBGoode, 5523.8 miles travelled, held by 12 cachers, visited 13 caches, 2 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • Geohunter-X emcache Racer (Horsey Neigh Neigh) (Travel Bug tag) owned by geohunter-x, 5198.8 miles travelled, held by 12 cachers, visited 18 caches, 7 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • Sukygoeswandering emcache racer From Leicestershire with love (Travel Bug tag) owned by Sukygoeswandering, 4120.3 miles travelled, held by 3 cachers, visited 5 caches, 2 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • The-Black-Angel's emCache Racer (GeoCoin) owned by The-Black-Angel, 3525.5 miles travelled, held by 11 cachers, visited 14 caches, 4 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • RascalGaskells emCache Racer - Cachehopper (Travel Bug tag) owned by rascalgaskells, 2862.9 miles travelled, held by 15 cachers, visited 15 caches, 8 UK counties & 1 overseas country
  • emCache racer - Emo the Fast Fish (Travel Bug tag) owned by Slightly Tall Paul, 2174.3 miles travelled, held by 8 cachers, visited 9 caches, 4 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • Oceanblue's Emcache racer - Pat's Special Delivery (Travel Bug tag) owned by oceanblue07970, 1655.6 miles travelled, held by 6 cachers, visited 10 caches, 6 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • Lucky Lottie emCache racer "Holiday Bug" (Travel Bug tag) owned by Lucky Lottie, 1647.7 miles travelled, held by 14 cachers, visited 15 caches, 1 UK county & 2 overseas countries
  • peachleaf's emCache Racer (GeoCoin) owned by peachleaf, 1151.2 miles travelled, held by 16 cachers, visited 16 caches, 2 UK counties & 2 overseas countries
  • Karon's Promise emCache TB racer (Travel Bug tag) owned by lgxkls, 1051.2 miles travelled, held by 15 cachers (including 1 unknown), visited 17 caches in 10 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • The Great Galaxy Seekers - emCache Racer - Big Ben Geocoin (GeoCoin), owned by The Great Galaxy Seekers, 597.2 miles travelled, held by 7 cachers, visited 9 caches in 4 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER John's stegasaurus emcache TB racer (Travel Bug tag) owned by lgxkls, 376.2 miles travelled, held by 12 cachers, visited 14 caches in 7 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • Katie 2000 emCache racer "Needles" (Travel Bug tag) owned by Katie 2000, 273.1 miles travelled, held by 2 cachers, visited 10 caches in 3 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • EMCACHE RACER LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! (Travel Bug tag) owned by Garland Gang, 228.2 miles travelled, held by 13 cachers, visited 15 caches in 6 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • geopirate4's emCache Racer (GeoCoin) owned by geopirate4, 117.7 miles travelled, held by 1 cacher, visited 3 caches in 3 UK counties. Did not travel overseas
  • John's triceratops emcache TB racer (Travel Bug tag) owned by lgxkls, 2.7 miles travelled, held by no cachers (just 1 muggle!), visited 2 caches in 1 UK county