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.

Update! Mrs Web Rat's geocoin goes up in the world!

Hawaii-based cacher GeoGerms has retrieved Mrs Web Rat's EmCache Racer GeoCoin and moved it to his own 3100-ft high cache K1 or K2 ????, dipping it into this cache on the way, adding a total of 1.6 miles to it's distance.

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! Mrs Web Rat has her hula skirt on!

Cacher Webersh has placed Mrs. Web Rat's GeoCoin into this Hawaiian cache near Honolulu on Oahu Island. This move has added 3451.3 miles to the coin's distance, enabling it to easily leap into second place overall in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race. Even if this coin doesn't win, it's certainly visited some interesting places!

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! Mrs Web Rat's geocoin retrieved

After having a good look at Mt Rushmore, Mrs Web Rat's Emcache Racer Geocoin has been picked up by cacher Webersh.

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. A third *** indicates that the TB has travelled overseas, returned to the UK and in now overseas again!

Update! Mrs Web Rat's coin moves over 500 miles

Cacher Deisel123 has placed Mrs. Web Rat's GeoCoin in this cache in South Dakota, close to Mount Rushmore, adding 503.9 miles to it's distance travelled which moves it one position up the race rankings.

In other news, German cacher Krue has confirmed that he has possession of peachleaf's geocoin, last seen in his own now-archived Dorsten ! cache.

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. A third *** indicates that the TB has travelled overseas, returned to the UK and in now overseas again!

Update! Mrs. Web Rat's GeoCoin definitively in the Top 10

Cacher Pio Clan placed Mrs. Web Rat's Definitive GeoCoin into this Minnesota cache from where it was promptly retrieved by local cacher Deisel123. The trip to Minnesota has added 4002.5 miles to the distance travelled by Mrs. Web Rat's entry in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race. This is sufficient to push Mrs. WR up into a Top 10 race position, splitting the entries of Johnny B. Goode and Sukigoeswandering.

In other news, Jupiter103 has placed lgxkls' John's stegasaurus TB into this Buckinghamshire cache, adding 14.6 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 a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK. A third *** indicates that the TB has travelled overseas, returned to the UK and in now overseas again!

Update! Mrs Web Rat gains two places

Cacher lauraxstevenson has placed Mrs Web Rat's GeoCoin into this frequently-visited Berkshire cache, adding 54.5 miles to it's distance travelled, sufficient to move it up two places in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race.

In other news, Rochester-based cacher dps_gps has retrieved ITCHYthirdEYE's SPANK, the monkey Travel Bug from Poot Loot.

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! Lots of distance covered, but no position changes

A few updates to add; cacher dafffy placed greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog into this cache, making the little amphibian the first entry in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race to visit Italy, and adding 700.9 miles to it's distance covered.

Two entries retrieved were ITCHYthirdEYE's SPANK, the monkey TB, collected by cachers the_roys and Mrs. Web Rat's GC which was picked up by cacher lauraxstevenson.

Beating all three of these entries was niknrich's EmCache Racer: Nosey Pup TB which cacher Norfolkbirder both dropped and retrieved from this Norfolk cache, adding another 4449 miles to Nosey pup's walkies!

Finally, just yesterday JohnnyBGoode's You want fries with that? TB was left in this sleepy TB Hotel.

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! Mrs Web Rat's geocoin jumps 1.2 miles

Mrs Web Rat's emCache Racer GeoCoin has been retrieved by cacher ginger4x4 who almost immediately placed it into this cache, adding 1.2 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 a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Mrs Web Rat's GeoCoin back in action at last

Kent cachers The leckie boys have finally placed Mrs Web Rat's GeoCoin into this cache in Kent, adding 2.2 miles to it's race distance, after holding it for more than six months, during which time they claim to have taken it to New Zealand but forgotten to place (or even dip) it into a cache!

In other news, current 3rd-place holder in the race greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog has been placed into yet another German TB hotel. It may be there for some time though, as there is a huge number of trackables to choose from in this one. Is the Greedy Green Frog cute enough to appeal to someone?

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.21; Letting go is so hard to do

Five entries in the 2009 / 2010 EmCache TB Race are currently in the hands of cachers;

niknrich's Nosey Pup TB, held by Hillhappy1 for 2 days
lgxkls' Karon's Promise TB, held by clawtech_ratbag for 4 days
peachleaf's Definitive GC, held by diebaeren for 32 days
Katie 2000's Needles TB, held by grizzly-bear for 60 days
Mrs Web Rat's Definitive GC, held by The leckie boys for 73 days.

Grizzly-bear has visited several caches since collecting Katie 2000's Travel Bug, so he may have dropped it into one but forgotten to log. I'll check at my earliest opportunity. Ironically at the time of collecting the TB he commented that it hasn't travelled much for a Travel Bug!

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! Itchy looking good, Mrs Web Rat & peachleaf not so good

I was wondering why 9 cachers all passed up the chance to take Itchy's Crown Jewels yesterday, well now the mystery is solved as climber1958 collected Itchy's TB on Saturday, but has only just logged his find.

In other news BBreezers have reported no TBs present in The Three Rs #2 which should contain Mrs Web Rat's race entrant. Perhaps they didn't count it because it's a GeoCoin, not a Travel Bug? Additionally, Dutch cacher mturenhout has reported that Three Of A Kind (current home of peachleaf's GeoCoin) has possibly been muggled, due to the grass being cut?! Hopefully it is just a case of an inexperienced cacher assuming that a cache has been muggled because he can't find it.

As always, scroll down to bottom of this page for current race placings.

Random stats no.1; Distance

In the absence of any moves today, here are some stats relating to distance:
Longest single move is 139.2 miles by Mrs Web Rat's definitive GeoCoin.
Shortest single move (excluding two entrants that have yet to move, you know who you are lads!) is 1.7 miles by Karon's Promise Travel Bug.
Total distance moved so far by all entrants is 594.4 miles, an average of 28.3 miles for each racer, or an average of 23.8 miles per move.