Update! Niknrich's TB noses up the race rankings

Niknrich's EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup has been placed into this cache in Warwickshire, adding 105.2 miles to it's race distance and moving up to 11th 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! Race leader collected

After being passed over by ten consecutive cachers it was 11th time lucky for EmCache TB Race leader Greedy Green Frog which has been collected by German cacher Papabaer. What is it about geocachers that so many name themselves after bears?

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! Just for a change, a TB is placed in a cache

Lgxkls' Karon's Promise EmCache Racer Travel Bug has been placed into this cache in Cornwall, adding 155.2 miles to it's total distance travelled, moving it up two places into 8th position in the race rankings. This is my calculation of the distance travelled as cacher clawtech_ratbag who was holding the TB unintentionally logged it into the wrong 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.

Update! Now it's TWR's turn to have his trackable collected

Dutch cacher Huntpostmus picked up The Web Rat's EmCache Racer GeoCoin almost two weeks ago on December 17th, but has only just logged it out of the puzzle cache that it was resting in.

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! A 5th EmCache Racer picked up

The Great Galaxy Seekers' Big Ben GeoCoin is the latest EmCache TB Race entry to be collected by a cacher, the cacher in this instance being Iain_the_explorer.

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! Yet another TB collected

Mine! Emo the Fast Fish has been collected by team pendolino, owners of the cache that it was resting in. Thanks team p!

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! And another...

South Notts cachers Ghost Rockers collected RascalGaskells' Cachechopper Travel Bug last Wednesday from the cache that it was resting in near Bunny.

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! Another TB collected

Lgxkls' John's stegasaurus emcache TB racer has been picked up by cacher Hunters Inc.

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! Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug collected at last

After spending more than 2 months in a multi-cache in Germany, Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug Travel Bug has been collected by cacher Seemfüßler.

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.

Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas to all my fellow emCache members who entered a trackable in the 2009 / 2010 TB Race, without whom this blog wouldn't be possible, and without wanting to panic anyone unduly, there is now a (slightly) ominous countdown added to the bottom of this page, below the race placings.

Have a good one cachers!

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! niknrich's Nosey Pup collected

Niknrich's EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup has been collected from North Wales by veteran cacher Hillhappy1, who is threatening to bring it back to the East Midlands.

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; version 9

Another quiet day for moves in the 2009-2010 EmCache TB Race, so it's time for the old standby of a UK Counties visited map, now updated to include Gwent and Hereford & Worcestershire, based on one found here;

The 22 previous counties visited are Cambridgeshire, Ceredigion, Clwyd, Cornwall, Derbyshire, East Sussex, Greater London, Greater Manchester, The Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Surrey, West Yorkshire and Wiltshire.

Good going for a race that is only about a quarter run. Now, how about some kindly cacher taking a racer North of the Border for Hogmanay?

Update! Karon's Promise collected by a ratbag

lgxkls' Karon's Promise TB has been collected by the claws of this memorably named cacher who may drop it in Cornwall shortly.

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.20; Distance

Here's a list of the top ten moves. The figure in brackets is the TB's current race placing.

1. Greedy Green Frog Emcache Racer (1st) 1775.6 miles
2. Greedy Green Frog Emcache Racer (1st) 1591.9 miles
3. The Web Rat's emCache Racer (2nd) 1252 miles
4. The Web Rat's emCache Racer (2nd) 1210.2 miles
5. RascalGaskells emCache Racer - Cachehopper (3rd) 1198.8 miles
6. RascalGaskells emCache Racer - Cachehopper (3rd) 1194.6 miles
7. Lucky Lottie emCache racer "Holiday Bug" (7th) 352.7 miles
8= peachleaf's emCache Racer (4th) 265 miles
8= The Web Rat's emCache Racer (2nd) 265 miles
10. The Great Galaxy Seekers - emCache Racer - Big Ben Geocoin (6th) 229.8 miles

This just goes to prove the obvious fact that TBs that have the longest moves gain higher race placings.

The ten shortest moves are;

1. emCache racer - Emo the Fast Fish (18th) 0.3 miles
2. Geohunter-X emcache Racer (Horsey Neigh Neigh) (8th) 1.6 miles
3= Geohunter-X emcache Racer (Horsey Neigh Neigh) (8th) 1.7 miles
3= Karon's Promise emCache TB Racer (10th) 1.7 miles
5. Katie 2000 emCache racer "Needles" (11th) 2 miles
6. Geohunter-X emcache Racer (Horsey Neigh Neigh) (8th) 2.1 miles
7= John's triceratops emcache TB racer (OUT) 2.7 miles
7= RascalGaskells emCache Racer - Cachehopper (3rd) 2.7 miles
9. Katie 2000 emCache racer "Needles" (11th) 2.8 miles
10. Geohunter-X emCache Racer (Horsey Neigh Neigh) (8th) 3.4 miles

As expected, Travel Bugs with shorter single moves are lower down in the overall race placings. The multiple appearances of Geohunter-X's TB is due to having been dipped several times by the first cacher to collect it.

Update! The Great Galaxy Seekers' Big Ben strikes

The Great Galaxy Seekers' Big Ben GeoCoin has been dropped into this cache in Worcestershire, adding 166.8 miles to it's distance travelled and moving it up to 6th place overall in the EmCache TB Race 2009 / 2010.

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 is first EmCache TB in Gwent

ITCHYthirdEYE's Itchys' Crown Jewels TB has been placed into this Event cache, to be held in Bassaleg, near Newport, Gwent on January 6th, adding 65 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.

Random stats no.19; Left on the shelf

EmCache Travel Bug Race leader greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog has now been left in the container by eight consecutive visitors to this cache.

Is this because Germans dislike frogs, or is there simply too much choice with 10 other trackables in the cache?

UK Counties visited; version 8

I just had to post an eighth version of the EmCache Travel Bug Race 2009/2010 UK Counties visited map as between us, our racers have bisected the nation! Map is current as of noon on December 15th 2009, adapted from one found here 

The county that did the deed is Lancashire, to add to Cambridgeshire, Ceredigion, Clwyd, Cornwall, Derbyshire, East Sussex, Greater London, Greater Manchester, The Isle of Wight, Kent, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Surrey, West Yorkshire and Wiltshire. Now, how about some kindly cacher taking a racer North of the Border?

Update! Piston head Pete heads East (12.7 miles East!)

UK89camaro's emCache Racer - Piston head Pete Travel Bug has been dropped into this cache near Redhill in Surrey, adding 12.7 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! peachleaf's GeoCoin collected

German cachers diebaeren have now confirmed that they collected peachleaf's emcache racer GeoCoin from Ruhr Park Shopping / Caching Center on November 21st.

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! JACKO is first EmCache Racer to Lancashire

Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO Travel Bug has been placed in this cache near the village of Belmont in Lancashire. The 11.3 miles added to JACKO's total distance haven't moved him up the race positions, but every mile counts! Cacher Hillgorilla was only the third visitor to the cache, which was published more than two months ago, so JACKO may have a long wait to be collected, but in geocaching finders can come in clusters, so who knows?

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! Horsey Neigh Neigh gallops into top ten

Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh Travel Bug has been dropped into this puzzle cache in South Yorkshire, more than doubling it's distance travelled and gaining it a top ten placing in the 2009 / 2010 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! A follow-up to yesterday's post

Cacher crimsonrambler (probably most EmCache members have moved on one of his GeoCoins) has collected The Great Galaxy Seekers' Big Ben GeoCoin and updated it's logs to show the correct distance travelled. Thank You crimsonrambler!

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! A little bit late...

The Great Galaxy Seekers' Big Ben GeoCoin has been placed in this cache. In fact it was placed there more than a month ago, but has only just come to my attention. I emailed cacher Gorraine a couple of weeks ago asking him to log the coin out of GCZ5EX Wheal Friendly ruins but he never replied. I've added the 24.5 miles appropriate to this move and hopefully another cacher will move the coin on shortly.

In related news, I have emailed German cachers diebaeren to ask if they could confirm that they are holding peachleaf's GeoCoin, but I haven't received a reply so far.

Random stats no.18; Hanging around

Welsome to a special edition of Random Stats dedicated to oceanblue07970, who's EmCache TB Racer - Pat's Special Delivery has been stuck in this traditional cache for 71 days and counting. Is he on strike?
Second on the loiterers list is Lucky Lottie's "Holiday Bug" TB which has been vacationing in this German multi-cache for 52 days.
Third longest lingerer is Geopirate4's Definitive GeoCoin, which hasn't budged from this multi-cache for 38 days.

Also a special mention must be made of JohnnyBGoode's You Want Fries With That? and Sukygoeswandering's From Leicestershire With Love Travel Bugs that were teleported on October 14th and haven't been seen since. Did Coppers Lot forget to put a sixpence in the electric meter?

UK counties visited map; version 7

Time for a seventh version of the EmCache Travel Bug Race 2009/2010 UK Counties visited map, current as of noon on December 8th 2009, adapted from one found here

Just one county to add since the last map, Wiltshire, to add to Cambridgeshire, Ceredigion, Clwyd, Cornwall, Derbyshire, East Sussex, Greater London, Greater Manchester, The Isle of Wight, Kent, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Surrey and West Yorkshire. The blue is spreading!

Update! Garland Gang's JACKO collected

Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO Travel Bug has been collected by cacher Hillgorilla who, in his own words, likes being out and about on them hills!

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! Karon's Promise is first EmCache Racer to visit Wiltshire

lgxkls' Karon's Promise Emcache TB Racer has been placed into this cache in Wiltshire, jumping up into a top ten place in the race standings in the process.

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.17: Oldest cache visited

As of noon on 5/12/2009, the oldest cache visited by an entry in the EmCache 2009 / 2010 Travel Bug Race is Alien's Hideaway, placed September 9th 2001 and visited by geopirate4's GeoCoin. Second oldest is Blighty - Rutland, placed October 13th 2002 and visited by Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh. Third on the list is Any Fort In A Storm (Staffordshire) which dates from 29/12/2002 and visited by my own Emo the Fast Fish TB.

Update! Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh collected from a cache that it wasn't in

Experienced cacher bleaklow has collected geohunter-x's Horsey Neigh Neigh, not from the cache that it was listed as being in, but from one 0.13 of a mile away. The previous holder of the TB, simonwarnes, visited both caches on the same day, so at the moment I'm acting on the belief that he accidentally logged it into the wrong cache (although it is possible that Horsey was moved by a third party) and as the difference is so small no adjustment in distance will be made at the moment.

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.

Itchys' Crown Jewels increases blogworld domination!

Welsh cacher Tortoiseshell has featured Itchys' Crown Jewels TB in this post on his blog. Congrats to ITCHYthirdEYE on becoming a star of *2* blogs!

Random stats no.16; Alphatrivia

If all caches visited by EmCache TB Race entries were listed alphabetically, 1st would be this cache, visited by geopirate4's emCache Racer and last would be this one, current home of RascalGaskells emCache Racer - Cachehopper.

Update! Nosey Pup goes for a run

Geohunter-X has dropped niknrich's EmCache Racer: Nosey Pup in this cache in Clwyd, North Wales, which despite it's name is a traditional, not a mystery 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.

Random stats no.15; How fast?

To work out which Travel Bugs are travelling the fastest in the EmCache TB race I divided the distance travelled by the hours travelling, starting at noon on the day that the trackable was launched from EmCache's September meeting, up to noon today, and came up with following chart (rounded to two decimal points);

1. greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog, 2.04 mph
2. The Web Rat's Emcache Racer, 1.54 mph
3. RascalGaskells' Cachechopper, 1.38 mph
4. peachleaf's Emcache Racer, 0.3 mph
5. uk89camaro's Piston head Pete (& Dave), 0.24 mph
6. Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug, 0.2 mph
7= The Great Galaxy Seeker's Emcache Racer, 0.13 mph
7= Itchys' Crown Jewels, 0.13 mph
7= lgxkls' John's stegasaurus, 0.13 mph
10. Katie 2000's Needles, 0.1 mph
11= Garland Gang's JACKO, 0.09 mph
11= Mrs Web Rat's Emcache Racer, 0.09 mph
13= Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh, 0.07 mph
13= Geopirate4's Emcache Racer, 0.07 mph
15. Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!!, 0.06 mph
16= Slightly Tall Paul's Emo the Fast Fish, 0.05 mph
16= lgxkls' Karon's Promise, 0.05 mph
18. niknrich's Nosey Pup, 0.03 mph
19= JohnnyBGoode's You Want Fries With That?, 0.02 mph
19= Oceanblue's Pat's Special Delivery, 0.02 mph
19= Sukygoeswandering's From Leics With Love, 0.02 mph

Well, what do you know, one trackable is almost travelling at walking pace, whilst most of the others are almost standing still!

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.

Update! lgxkls launches a replacement Travel Bug

After lgxkls' John's triceratops emcache TB racer was muggled after logging only 2.7 miles, they have launched a new TB named John's stegasaurus emcache TB racer, appropriately enough in a cache with Resurrection in it's name. Although 10.2 miles travelled are shown on this Bug's logs, in fact the little stegasaurus is officially at zero miles travelled.

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

Update! JACKO is first TB race entrant in Greater Manchester

There is another County to add to yesterday's UK Counties visited map, as bluewhitereg has dropped Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO Travel Bug into this cache in Greater Manchester, adding 36.4 miles to it's total race distance travelled.

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

UK Counties visited map updated

Here is an updated version of the UK Counties visited map, current as of noon on October 30th 2009, adapted from one found here

New Counties added are Ceredigion, The Isle of Wight, Rutland and South Yorkshire, to go along with Clwyd, Derbyshire, Kent, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire and West Yorkshire.

Update! EMCACHE RACER LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! collected by windswept

More activity for Garland Gang's Travel Bugs: LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! has been collected by windswept.

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

Update! EMCACHE RACER JACKO collected by bluewhitereg

West Yorkshire cacher bluewhitereg, who has logged over 1000 finds in less than a year, collected Garland Gang's JACKO from the Roundhay Reunion V event cache. I've now updated the TB's milage to the official distance (I was half-a-mile out!).

Scroll to bottom of this page for current race positions. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. Entrants with one * after their milage are currently overseas, entrants with two ** have travelled overseas and are currently back in the UK.

Update! JACKO placed into Event Cache in West Yorkshire

Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO has been placed by HxRoamer into this event cache being held tonight in West Yorkshire. Pop along and pick him up! If Garland Gang are reading this, could you please click recalculate milage on your TBs' pages? In the meantime I have unofficially calculated the distance travelled as 24.7 miles.

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

Update! geopirate4's Definitive GeoCoin finally is picked up

After languishing in the same cache for over a month (and briefly thought missing), geopirate4's emcache racer GeoCoin has been collected by birdboot.

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

Update! Katie 2000's Needles TB back on the mainland

Essex-based cacher grizzly-bear has collected Katie 2000's Needles Travel Bug from The Isle Of Wight.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race positions.

Update! The Garland Gang invade South Yorkshire

FiddleMad has placed both EMCACHE RACER JACKO and EMCACHE RACER LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! into caches in South Yorkshire. JACKO was placed in kb6 and was almost immediately collected by Halifax-based cacher HxRoamer, whilst LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! was placed in kb14 and is still there. I have made my own milage calculations for both of these Travel Bugs, so the total distance travelled may be corrected later.

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 has travelled overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! The Web Rat's Definitive GeoCoin takes a break in The Algarve

Ratio1 dropped The Web Rat's emCache Racer GeoCoin into this cache in The Algarve, Portugal, where it was almost immediately collected by Froodoo (unsurprising, as they were caching together!) who is planning to place it in a cache back in his homeland of The Netherlands.

Scroll to bottom of this page for current race placings.

Update! ITCHYthirdEYE versus uk89camaro

ITCHYthirdEYE's Travel Bug Itchys' Crown Jewels has been placed by climber1958 into this cache in Ceredigion, West Wales increasing it's total distance travelled by 103.1 miles and putting it right on the heels of uk89camaro's Piston head Pete & Dave TBs for highest milage for a race entrant that hasn't travelled overseas.

Speaking of Piston head Pete & Dave, they were picked up from Rocket two days ago by Kent-based cacher ddr1711, so is a trip to the South-East likely?

Scroll down to bottom of this page for current race standings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. Race entrants with one * after the milage have travelled overseas, entrants with two ** have travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! Katie 2000's Needles TB visits The Needles

EmCache member OnlyMeUK has dropped Katie2000's Needles Travel Bug into this cache on The Isle Of Wight, not far from The Needles themselves, adding 134.7 miles to it's total distance travelled and moving up to 7th place in the EmCache Travel Bug Race.

Scroll to bottom of this page for current race placings.

Random stats no.6: Distance

Here is an update to last Friday's stats relating to distance:
Longest single move is 1591.9 miles by greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog emCache Racer.
Shortest single move (excluding three entrants that have yet to move, you know who you are lads!) is 1.6 miles by GeoHunter-X's emCache Racer (Horsey Neigh Neigh) Travel Bug.
Total distance moved so far by all entrants is 5843.7 miles, an average of 254.1 miles for each racer, or an average of 127 miles per move.

Update! 1591.9 miles in one hop? That's Greedy!

Greedy Green Frog shows that playing leapfrog is a piece of cake! After no news for a few weeks, yesterday Lansdown dropped greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog TB in this cache on the Atlantic island of Madiera and it was picked up almost immediately by German cacher DerBar. How lucky can one frog be?

Scroll down for latest race positions. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after the TB's milage means that that Travel Bug has travelled overseas, two ** shows that the trackable has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! EmCache member FiddleMad picks up two race entrants

EmCache member FiddleMad has picked up both of the Garland Gang's TB race entrants.

Scroll to bottom of this page for updated race placings. I.H.O. means that that trackable is In The Hands Of the named cacher, not in a cache.

Update! Piston head Pete returns to East Midlands

Piston head Pete has returned from his dip in North Wales and been placed in this cache in Derbyshire, which means that Pete (and Dave) has travelled the furthest of any EmCache TB Race entrant that hasn't travelled overseas.

In other news, Karon's Promise Travel Bug has been collected by XTrailers, although at the time of posting this update they had not yet logged the TB out of the cache.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for current race standings. One asterisk after entrant's milage means that it has travelled overseas, two asterisks show that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Update! peachleaf's GeoCoin safe, Karon's Promise moves along

mturenhout was somewhat premature with their muggle fears for Three Of A Kind, as superstein has found the cache and collected peachleaf's Definitive GeoCoin.

Additionally, Nottingham cacher Darkfonz has placed Karon's Promise in a new cache that he had published last night, Call of Duty 4. I had a look for this cache this morning but the co-ords were a little out and I didn't have time for a thorough search of the area. Perhaps another member of EmCache will be First-to-Find now that revised co-ordinates have been published? Good to see a photograph of Karon's Promise on it's tracking page. A gift from Mr. Holland perhaps?

Scroll to bottom of this page for current race placings. I.H.O. means being held by the named cacher, rather than in a cache.

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.

Update! A fourth race entrant makes it overseas

Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug TB has been placed in this multi-cache in the Nordrhein-Westfalen region of Western Germany, therefore gaining it's first asterisk to show that it has travelled overseas.

That means that 3 EmCache TB Race entrants are currently resting in multi-caches, the rest are either in traditionals or In The Hands Of a cacher.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for updated race positions.

Update! Emo goes for swim in a canal

Thank You to FOX 661L who has placed my own EmCache TB Race entrant, Emo the Fast Fish, into this multi-cache alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal in Rugeley, adding 39.3 miles to Emo's total distance travelled.

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

Update! Horsey Neigh Neigh vaults 6 places up the leaderboard

Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh Travel Bug has moved up to 7th place in the EmCache Travel Bug Race thanks to ic clippy dipping it into this cache in Rutland (another County to add to the map!) and then leaving it in this one. Thank You ic!

Scroll down to the bottom of this page for current race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. Any entrant with an asterisk after the milage has travelled overseas and any with two asterisks has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Random stats no.5; Distance

Here is an update to last Tuesday's stats relating to distance:
Longest single move is 1198.8 miles by RascalGaskells Emcache racer - Cachehopper Travel Bug.
Shortest single move (excluding three entrants that have yet to move, you know who you are lads!) is 1.6 miles by GeoHunter-X's emCache Racer (Horsey Neigh Neigh) Travel Bug.
Total distance moved so far by all entrants is 3730.2 miles, an average of 162.2 miles for each racer, or an average of 95.6 miles per move.

Update! Beam us up, Coppers Lot!

Johnny B. Goode's emCache Racer - You Want Fries With That? and Sukygoeswandering's emCache Racer - From Leicestershire With Love have both been collected by Coppers Lot and are in the process of teleportation to the United States.

If their trip to the U.S. goes as well as NottsCachers' Reverse Goldrush, the other entrants in the EmCache TB Race have nothing to worry about!

Scroll down to bottom of this page for updated race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of. Trackables with one asterisk after their milage have travelled overseas, trackables with two asterisks have travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

UK Counties visited map updated

No movements for the racers today, so here is an updated version of the UK Counties visited map, current as of noon on October 14th 2009, adapted from one found here

Additional counties visited by EmCache TB race contestants in the last 10 days are Clwyd, Nottinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

Update! The Web Rat's EmCache Racer collected

The Web Rat's EmCache Racer GeoCoin has been collected by Dutch cacher Ratio1, for deposit in further caches in The Netherlands.

Scroll to bottom of this page for latest race standings.

Update! Cachehopper back in UK with a tremendous race lead

RascalGaskells emCache racer - Cachehopper has been placed in this cache in West Yorkshire after it's trip to Spain. This means that Cachehopper is the first trackable in The EmCache TB Race to earn a second asterisk to show that it has returned to the UK after an overseas trip, and in less than a month too!

Scroll down to bottom of this page for updated race positions.

Update! peachleaf and The Web Rat go Dutch

True to his word, astrollamas has placed The Web Rat and peachleaf's EmCache race GeoCoins in this cache in the West of The Netherlands, vaulting them up to 2nd and 3rd places in the race. Will they make it back to the UK in time for EmCache's Second Anniversary Event?

Scroll down to the bottom of this page for updated race placings.

Update! Good news for Itchy

Another update on this busy day for EmCache's TB race entrants; ITCHYthirdEYE's Itchys' Crown Jewels have been placed in this cache in Oxfordshire, jumping up to 4th place in the race in the process.

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

Update! Dipping mini-frenzy for Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh

ic clippy has dipped Horsey Neigh Neigh into three caches in the Market Harborough area today, adding 6.7 miles to it's total distance travelled.

Scroll down to foot of this page for latest updated race placings.

Update! Karon's Promise collected by Darkfonz

Heyyy!!! Nottingham-based Darkfonz has collected Karon's Promise Travel Bug from More Rabbits?

Scroll to bottom of this page for current race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher, rather than in a cache.

Update! Katie 2000's Needles TB adds 2 more miles

EmCache member OnlyMeUK has dipped Katie 2000's Needles Travel Bug into this puzzle cache, adding 2 miles to the total distance travelled. As a puzzle cache, the milage is calculated to the co-ordinates posted on the cache listing page.

Scroll down to the bottom of this page for latest race placings.

Update! Two racers are picked-up and one is buried alive!

Both Itchys' Crown Jewels and Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug have been collected by cachers for onward movement. Holiday Bug is expected to appear shortly in a cache in Germany!

In other news, geopirate4's GeoCoin was transferred to the UK TB Graveyard, only to miraculously re-appear in the cache, Alien's Hideaway that it went missing from, having seemingly been there the whole time. Welcome back little EmCache Racer!

As always, scroll to the bottom of this page for the latest race positions. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the cacher named, rather than in a cache.

Update! First Travel Bug to visit Nottinghamshire

BalooCrew have dropped Karon's Promise EmCache TB Racer into More Rabbits? in Nottinghamshire, adding 14.4 miles to it's total distance.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for up-to-date race positions.

Random stats no.4; Finders

Not counting Discovered logs, and excluding geopirate4's GeoCoin, a total of 13 cachers have collected EmCache Travel Bug 2009/2010 Race entrants, including 4 EmCache members, 3 of whom have trackables of their own in the race.

RascalGaskells' Cachehopper is the only entrant to be collected by 3 different cachers, and OnlyMeUK is the only EmCache member without a trackable in the race to have collected an entrant.

Random stats no.3; Caches visited

Another slow day, so here are the stats on caches visited (excluding the starting cache);
Runaway leader in this category is Katie 2000's Needles Travel Bug which has visited 6 caches, all in Leicestershire.
RascalGaskells' Cachehopper TB has visited 3 caches (including one in Spain) and three other entries have visited 2 caches each. All the others have been logged into 1 each except for the three competitors that haven't yet left the starting line.
Total caches visited (including duplicates) is 30, or 1.3 per racer.

Random Stats No.2; Distance

Tuesdays must be a slow day in terms of Travel Bug moves, so here is an update to last Tuesday's stats relating to distance:
Longest single move is 1198.8 miles by RascalGaskells Emcache racer - Cachehopper Travel Bug.
Shortest single move (excluding three 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 1942.1 miles, an average of 84.4 miles for each racer, or an average of 64.7 miles per move.

Update! Call that a hop? And has an entrant been the victim of piracy?

I would be more likely to describe it as a massive leap, as RascalGaskells' Cachehopper TB takes a huge lead in the race thanks to astra-nomical placing it in this cache in Andalucia, Southern Spain, therefore Cachehopper becomes the first entrant to have an asterisk added after the milage to show that it has travelled overseas. A second asterisk will be added if it returns to the UK, which is very likely as it has now been collected by Yorkshire based cacher overanout.

In other news geopirate4's definitive geocoin has been reported absent from the cache that it should be in and it's location has been adjusted to whereabouts unknown. Hopefully this is just a case of a newbie cacher unsure how to log a trackable and geopirate4's coin will turn up shortly.

Scroll down to the foot of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of, i.e. currently in the possession of a cacher.

Update! Piston Head Pete (& Dave) dip into 2nd place

Swirl and Wag have dipped uk89camaro's Piston Head Pete (with Dave) into this cache in North Wales, making Pete the first Travel Bug in the race to leave England, and leaping it up to Second position in the race.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race positions.

Update! Emo the Fast Fish has been hooked

My own race Travel Bug, Emo the Fast Fish has been collected by FOX 661L. Where will he end up?

Scroll down for latest race positions. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of.

Update! Walk-On!

Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh has been picked-up from Foxton View 2 by ic clippy.

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

Update! Katie 2000's Needles TB is dipped into 4th place

OnlyMeUK has dipped Katie 2000's Needles Travel Bug into this cache, adding 5.3 miles to it's total distance, enough to leapfrog six other entrants!

Scroll down to bottom of this page for current standings.

UK Counties visited map

This map shows which counties have been visited by EmCache TB race contestants, as of noon on 4/10/2009, adapted from one found here.

All entrants started from Leicestershire (some virtually) and have since visited Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Kent, West Yorkshire and Staffordshire. I wonder how many counties will be blue by the end of the race?

Update! Karon's Promise is picked-up

Karon's Promise has been collected from TREE HUGGIN' HEAVEN 2 by BalooCrew and may be ready to rush up the race rankings!

Scroll down to the foot of this page for updated race positions. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of (being held by a cacher), rather than in a cache.

Update! Itchy's Crown Jewels makes a move

Itchy has placed his Crown Jewels in Steffies' Uni Box in Northamptonshire, 32.4 miles from the EmCache September event.

Talking about the September event, niknrich has now Archived the event, so no further entrants for the TB race can be accepted. If you missed out, act faster next year!

Scroll down to the bottom of this page for latest updated race positions.

Another new entrant

EmCache member Nottinghamman has entered his Musket Travel Bug in the EmCache Travel Bug Race. Good Luck Nottinghamman!

Update! two entrants may be on their way to The Netherlands, and a new entrant appears

Astrollamas has collected both peachleaf's emCache Racer and The Web Rat's emCache Racer from their resting places and is planning to take them to The Netherlands.

In other news, emCache member ITCHYthirdEYE has launched his entrant, Itchys' Crown Jewels. Welcome to the race and Good Luck Itchy!

As always, please scroll down to the bottom of this page for the latest race rankings.

Update! Oceanblue's Pat's Special Delivery makes a First Class move

The Web Rat has dropped Oceanblue's Emcache Racer - Pat's Special Delivery into Cache EM If You Can #5: Billa Barra Booty, a move of 17.9 miles, moving Pat into 3rd position.

Scroll down to foot of this page for updated rankings. I.H.O. meaning In The Hands Of, i.e. not currently placed in a cache.

Pictures?

I've added a picture of my own Travel Bug, emCache racer - Emo the Fast Fish at bottom right of this page. If you email me a photo of your racer I will add that too.

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.

It is not too late to enter the race!

If any emCache member would like to enter a trackable in the race, it is not too late. Entries will be accepted until niknrich archives the event cache, which will be soon, so be quick!
Simply virtually log your trackable (any item trackable at GeoCaching.Com, whether Travel Bug, GeoCoin, Adventure Guide, Cache Mover, Trakabull, etc is okay) into the emCache September Event and then place into a cache in the East Midlands. Don't forget to let me know, so that I can add your entrant to the blog.

Disaster for John's triceratops emcache TB racer!

It appears that one of the entrants has been eliminated from the race after the muggling of this cache. However, all hope is not lost as Travel Bugs have turned up after unexplained absences in the past.

Additionally the emCache September Event has not yet been archived, so a replacement Travel Bug may be launched!

Update! Dipfest for Katie 2000's Needles Travel Bug

OnlyMeUK has dipped Katie 2000's Needles Travel Bug in two more caches today, increasing total milage to 32.4. This entrant has now visited five different caches in addition to the starting September event!

Scroll down to bottom of this page for updated rankings.

Update! Katie 2000's Needles retrieved by OnlyMeUK

OnlyMeUK has retrieved Katie 2000's Needles Travel Bug from Grimmauld Place.
Scroll down to foot of this page for current standings. I.H.O. = In The Hands Of; i.e. in the possession of a cacher, not in a cache.

Update! Katie 2000's Needles moves 10.8 miles

OnlyMeUK has placed Katie 2000's Travel Bug in Grimmauld Place, adding 10.8 miles and returning it almost to where it began the race from!
Scroll down to the bottom of this page for current race placings.

Update! The Garland Gang get busy

The Garland Gang have placed their two entrants, LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! and JACKO and have also picked up The Great Galaxy Seekers' GeoCoin. I have calculated the milage travelled on Garland Gang's Travel Bugs myself (as they have not yet clicked "Recalculate Distance"), so it may be a little out and will be re-adjusted if needed.
For latest rankings, scroll down to foot of this page.
Additional stats, photographs, etc will be added as soon as time permits.

Update! Mrs Web Rat leaps into the race lead!

lgxkls has dropped Mrs Web Rat's Definitive GeoCoin into The Three Rs #2, adding 139.2 miles to it's distance.
Scroll down to foot of this page for latest rankings.

Update! Katie 2000 moves 5.4 miles

OnlyMeUK has dipped Katie 2000's entry into Sapcote Brook, adding 5.4 miles and giving it sole possession of 13th place in the race.
Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest standings.

Update! Greedy Green Frog

greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog has been picked up and is on it's way.
Scroll down for latest rankings. I.H.O. means in the hands of, i.e., not in a cache.

Update!

Only a small update, Oceanblue's racer is now in the hands of The Web Rat. Scroll down for latest rankings at bottom of this page.

Meet the entrants: no.21 UK89Camaro - emcache racer German Geocoin

uk89camaro's German GeoCoin

Meet the entrants: no.20 uk89camaro - Emcache racer - Piston head Pete and co-pilot Dave, who is 'armless.

uk89camaro's Piston head Pete

Meet the entrants: no.19 The Web Rat's emCache Racer

The Web Rat's Definitive GeoCoin

Meet the entrants: no.18 The Great Galaxy Seekers - emCache Racer - Big Ben Geocoin

The Great Galaxy Seekers' Big Ben GeoCoin

Meet the entrants: no.17 Sukygoeswandering emcache racer From Leicestershire with love

Sukygoeswandering's From Leicestershire with love

Meet the entrants: no.16 RascalGaskells emCache Racer - Cachehopper

rascalgaskells' Cachehopper

Meet the entrants: no.15 peachleaf's emCache Racer

peachleaf's Definitive GeoCoin

Meet the entrants: no.14 Oceanblue's Emcache racer - Pat's Special Delivery

oceanblue07970's Pat's Special Delivery

Meet the entrants: no.13 Mrs Web Rat's emCache Racer

Mrs Web Rat's Definitive GeoCoin

Meet the entrants: no.12 Lucky Lottie emCache racer "Holiday Bug"

Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug

Meet the entrants: no.11 LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!!

Garland Gang's Louis' Vroom Vroom!!

Meet the entrants: no.10 Katie 2000 emCache racer "Needles"

Katie 2000's Needles

Meet the entrants: no.9 Karon's Promise emCache TB racer

lgxkls' Promise

Meet the entrants: no.8 JohnnyBGoode's emCache racer - You want fries with that?

JohnnyBGoode's You want fries with that?

Meet the entrants: no.7 John's triceratops emcache TB racer

lgxkls' triceratops

Meet the entrants: no.6 JACKO

Garland Gang's JACKO

Meet the entrants: no.5 Greedy Green Frog Emcache racer

greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog

Meet the entrants: no.4 geopirate4's emCache Racer

geopirate4's Definitive GeoCoin

Meet the entrants: no.3 Geohunter-X emcache Racer (Horsey Neigh Neigh)

geohunter-x's Horsey Neigh Neigh

Meet the entrants: no.2 EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup

niknrich's Nosey Pup

Meet the entrants: no.1 emCache racer - Emo the Fast Fish

Slightly Tall Paul's Emo the Fast Fish

First Postings

Just a quick first posting. Links to individual pages of each trackable will be added later. Current standing are listed at foot of this page and in the format of RANKING, TRACKABLE NAME, (DESCRIPTION), OWNER, LOCATION, TOTAL MILAGE. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of, rather than in a cache. Any trackable that leaves the UK will have a single * added to it's ranking and if it returns to the UK will have ** added to it's ranking.

If I have have missed any entrant in the TB race, please let me know, and any comments are welcome.

Cheers, Paul

EmCache Race 2009 / 2010

EmCache is an English-language forum for GeoCachers based in the East Midland of The United Kingdom, open for membership to GeoCachers Worldwide.

To celebrate EmCache's First Birthday, a trackables race has been started on 15th September 2009. The winner will be the trackable that is presented at EmCache's 2nd Anniversary Meeting, having covered the greatest number of miles, including at least one trip outside the UK.