Update! Race leader retrieved by a collie

Cacher pineconecollie has picked up the leading Travel Bug in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race, ITCHYthirdEYE's Itchys' Crown Jewels.

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 big hop for Greedy Green Frog

German cachers Die4Sucher have placed greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog into this cache in Hamburg, adding almost 400 miles to it's total distance hopped.

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Update! Peachleaf's geocoin gets on it's bike

German cachers Die MaYas have placed peachleaf's EmCache Racer GeoCoin into this cache, adding 3.1 miles to it's total distance travelled.

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Update! The Web Rat's geocoin back on the streets

After holding on to The Web Rat's EmCache Racer GeoCoin for more than 3 months, Dutch cacher Huntpostmus has placed it into this popular cache in the North-Western corner of The Netherlands, adding 9.9 miles to it's total distance travelled.

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Update! Emo the Fast Fish back in the swim of things

My own EmCache TB Race entry, Emo the Fast Fish has been picked up by cachers grandy p and dog after spending 8 weeks in the same cache. Thank You!

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Update! Open mouth, insert foot (or frog!)

No sooner did I write that greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog adventure guide had been placed into a rarely-visited cache than the cache was visited and Greedy Green Frog collected by German cachers Die4Sucher!

In other news, Katie 2000's "Needles" Travel Bug has been reported missing from the cache that it should be in; hopefully this is only a case of a cacher neglecting to log a find and Needles will turn up shortly.

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Update! Peachleaf's Geocoin out of the cache again

After a brief stay in Brassert, Gestern und Heute, peachleaf's Definitive Geocoin EmCache TB Racer has been picked up by cachers Die MaYas.

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Update! Peachleaf's geocoin placed into a cache

Peachleaf's emCache Racer geocoin has been dropped into this German multi-cache, adding 17.2 miles to it's total distance travelled. The Germans love their multi-caches, don't they?

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Update! OceanBlue's Postman Pat makes a First Class move

oceanblue07970 has dropped her Pat's Special Delivery Travel Bug into this cache in Scotland's Highland Region, the first 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race entry to visit a cache North of the Border. Amusingly the next cacher to find this cache left Pat in place and took a different trackable from the cache (on a personally less amusing note, this means that my race entry, Emo the Fast Fish, is now last of the active entries in the race, d'oh!).

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Update! Greedy Green Frog back in the wild

Former EmCache TB Race leader, greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog Adventure Guide has been placed into this rarely-visited multi-cache in southern Bavaria, adding 174 miles to it's total distance hopped.

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Update! Itchys' Crown Jewels' race lead extended

ITCHYthirdEYE's Itchys' Crown Jewels Travel Bug has extended it's lead in the EmCache TB Race by 2.7 miles after cacher YellowNinja placed it in this cache in South Wales.

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Update! John's stegasaurus dropped at Truckstop

John's stegasaurus Travel Bug, owned by lgxkls, has been dropped into this cache near to the M1 in Hertfordshire, adding 34.8 miles to it's total distance travelled.

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Update! 3 more TB Racers collected

On Saturday cacher Dave_S picked-up Garland Gang's JACKO TB from Bel-Vue, exactly 2 months after it had been left there. On Sunday cacher Norfolkbirder lead niknrich's Nosey Pup TB away from an event cache (and is considering letting him off the lead in the U.S.A.!), and on Monday cacher YellowNinja retrieved current race leader Itchys' Crown Jewels TB from a cache in South-East Wales.

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Update! Another racer collected

Peachleaf's EmCache Racer GeoCoin is the latest TB Race entry to be picked-up by a cacher, having been collected by legosteinteam.

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Update! Karon's Promise on the move

Cornish cacher Gorraine has collected lgxkls' Karon's Promise Travel Bug from We're Duned!. This is the second EmCache TB Race entry that Gorraine has moved on, having added 24.4 miles to The Great Galaxy Seekers' Big Ben Geocoin's total distance last November.

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Update! Nosey Pup off to celebrate the Year of the Tiger

Grantham-based EmCache member mundanedave has collected niknrich's EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup Travel Bug and dropped it into this event cache being held in Lincoln tomorrow, adding sufficient milage to it's total distance travelled to move it up to 13th place overall in the TB race.

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Random stats no.28: How Far Away Now?

With niknrich's Nosey Pup TB moving even closer to where it began, I thought that it might be interesting to ask again the question; How Far Away Now?

Considering only Travel Bugs and GeoCoins that are at present resting in caches, the one furthest away from the starting point is Lucky Lottie's "Holiday Bug" Travel Bug at 492.5 miles away, while the closest is niknrich's EmCache Racer: Nosey Pup Travel Bug, which is only 6.6 miles away from Bradgate.

The other Travel Bugs and GeoCoins currently in caches are;
peachleaf's Definitive GC, 344.5 miles away
Karon's Promise emCache TB Racer, 232.3 miles away
Itchys' Crown Jewels TB, 99 miles away
Katie 2000's EmCache Racer "Needles", 85.9 miles away
Garland Gang's JACKO, 84.8 miles away
geohunter-x's Horsey Neigh Neigh TB, 83.1 miles away
Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!!, 80.3 miles away
GeoPirate4's Definitive GC, 61.2 miles away
Slightly Tall Paul's Emo the Fast Fish, 39.5 miles away
oceanblue07970's Pat's Special Delivery TB, 18.4 miles away

All other entries are currently being held by cachers.

Update! Updating the blog after the Horsey has bolted

Yorkwombles have placed geohunter-x's Horsey Neigh Neigh EmCache Racer TB into this cache in London (in fact they placed it there a few days ago but I missed the drop!), the second time that Horsey Neigh Neigh has galloped down to The Smoke.

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Update! Peachleaf's GeoCoin regains 8th place

Peachleaf's Definitive GeoCoin has been dropped into this German multi-cache, adding sufficient milage to it's total distance travelled to enable it to regain 8th position in the EmCache TB Race.

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Update! Nosey Pup let off the lead

Madmajor has already dropped off niknrich's Nosey Pup TB at this cache; not the first 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race entry to have visited this particular cache.

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Update! Nosey Pup lead by the nose

Niknrich's EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup Travel Bug has been picked-up by trucking cacher madmajor.

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Update! John's stegasaurus collected by a Jolly Green Giant

Haddenham-based cacher JGG24 has collected John's stegasaurus Travel Bug, owned by lgxkls.

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Update! Pete picked up, Holiday Bug dropped off

uk89camaro's Piston head Pete EmCache TB Racer has been collected by cacher lechiberlin and Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug TB has been placed into this German multi-cache, adding 9.7 miles to it's total distance travelled.

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Update! Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug picked-up

German cacher Justus_Jonas has collected Lucky Lottie's EmCache Racer "Holiday Bug" from the complicated looking multi-cache that it was resting in.

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Update! You can't keep a good Piston down!

No sooner did I post a comment about uk89camaro's Piston head Pete TB going missing than geoernie (for it was he who nabbed Pete) placed him into this cache in Berlin, adding 4.7 miles to the total distance travelled.

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Where on Earth is Piston head Pete?

One of the most frustrating things about geocaching is when your trackables are removed from a cache but not logged out.

It appears that this has happened to uk89camaro's Piston head Pete & Dave which should be in this cache in Berlin, Germany but are not.

I've emailed the various finders and either Geo-Link or geoernie (neither of whom have responded to emails) or someone who hasn't logged visiting the cache online has taken it.

Could this be the end of the road for the Pete & Dave show?