Final Update!

The 2009 / 2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race came to crescendo of excitement (okay, slight exageration...) at EMcache's 2nd Birthday Bash! as everyone wondered if a race TB would arrive at the last second to snatch one of the podium positions. As it turned out, only three of the race entries made it to the finishing event, but considering the number of TBs and Geocoins that are stolen these days, it was a good finishing percentage.


The delighted winners were;


1st; niknrich's EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup. Nik chose an Original Can of Beans Geocoin as winner's prize.

2nd; ITCHYthirdEYE's SPANK, the Monkey (formerly Itchys' Crown Jewels). Geohunter-X chose a Discover Your World geocoin on Itchy's behalf.

3rd; uk89camaro - Emcache Racer - Piston head Pete and co-pilot Dave, who is 'armless. Uk89camaro received a Help For Heroes geocoin as his prize.

A consolation prize of a Racer Travel Tag was awarded to lgxkls for John's stegasaurus, which (as a triceratops)
was muggled almost immediately and it's replacement only covered 376.2 miles and never left the UK, or, in fact, the Southern half of England!


Here's a final UK counties visited map:

The final five counties added are Cheshire, Gwynedd, Northumberland, Pembrokeshire and West Sussex.

These five additional counties, when added to Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Ceredigion, Clwyd, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Dorset, East Sussex, Essex, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Gwent, Hampshire, NHereford & Worcestershire, Hertfordshire, The Highland Region, The Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Strathclyde Region, Surrey, Tyne & Wear, Warwickshire, West Yorkshire and Wiltshire, make a total of 41 UK counties visited. Pretty good going, I would say.

So, that's all folks until the 2nd EmCache TB Race, whenever that may be. In the meantime, check out The Great Travel Bug Knockout for all your TB racing needs!

Update! John's stegasaurus moves up 1 place

With only 32 hours or so to go, lgxkls' John's stegasaurus Travel Bug has been placed into this Hampshire cache, adding 105.6 miles to it's race distance, sufficient to move it into 18th place overall, ahead of the muggled Katie 2000's Needles TB.

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! Rabbit retrieved by Toad

RascalGaskells' Cachehopper Travel Bug has been picked-up by South-Eastern cacher Good Toad and JohnnyBGoode's You want fries with that? TB has been placed into this New Hampshire cache, adding 16.2 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.

Geohunter-X helps SPANK, the Monkey

EmCache member, and fellow race entrant, Geohunter-X has grabbed ITCHYthirdEYE's Travel Bug (luckily for Itchy, his original hitchhiker was removed or geohunter-x would be grabbing his Jewels!) and dipped him here, here, here, here, here and here, before finally placing SPANK into the finishing event cache, adding 55 miles and making him the 3rd entry home 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.

Will LOUIS' VROOM VROOM make it overseas after all?

Cacher Pieman has placed Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! TB into this cache, adding 12.3 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.

Do we have The Winner in the clubhouse?

Niknrich have placed their Nosey Pup Travel Bug into The 2009 /2010 EmCache TB Race finish Event, adding a final 35 miles to Nosey's race distance.

RascalGaskells' Cachehopper TB has been placed into this Halloweenesque multi-cache in Kent, adding 11.4 miles to it's distance travelled.

Finally, oceanblue07970's Pat's Special Delivery TB has been collected from the Spanish Mega by Finnish cachers OMO cachers.

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.

Just over a week to go!

With barely a week to go in the 2009 / 2010 EmCache TB Race, some moves are still being made;

Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh TB has been retrieved by American cacher diefenbaker.

lgxkls' Karon's Promise TB has been placed into this Pembrokeshire cache, adding 95.3 miles to it's distance travelled.

Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug TB was placed into this German cache, adding 25.5 miles to it's race distance, and then was immediately retrieved by cacher blubalu.

And finally, The Great Galaxy Seekers' Big Ben Geocoin has reappeared, cacher jayteecee taking more than 4 months to move it 10.7 miles to this Kent 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.

Cachehopper goes by NarrowBoat

RascalGaskells' Cachehopper Travel Bug has been retrieved by cachers Team NarrowBoat.

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.

Going to this weekend's Spanish Mega? Pat is!

French cacher buckfast has dropped oceanblue07970's Pat's Special Delivery TB into this weekend's Catalan Mega Event, adding 164.2 miles to his distance travelled, sufficient to steal 13th place from Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug.

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.

...and again!

A short stay for peachleaf's geocoin, as it has already been retrieved by German cacher Nur-der-Fahrer.

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.

Peachleaf's geocoin still moving

Peachleaf's geocoin may still make it back from Germany in time to make it to the finishing event cache, having just been placed into this cache, 146.2 miles closer to The Finishing Line.

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.

And again...

German cacher amorphis-fan has retrieved Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug TB.

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.

Another example of no sooner do I update than...

...another move is made! In this case, just a short move of 2.8 miles for The-Black-Angel's Definitive GeoCoin which ANDY&EVE placed into this Northumberland multi.

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.

Just over two weeks to go...

With only 16 days to go until the Event Cache finale of the 2009 / 2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race, here are some updated moves;

Australian cacher deaning placed Garland Gang's JACKO TB into his own Towering Heights cache, from where it was collected by cacher GR8T who subsequently placed JACKO into this Australian cache. These moves have added 100.5 miles to JACKO's distance travelled.

Cachers DragonsWest have dropped greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog into this Californian cache, adding 136.6 miles. Check out this evocative photo.

JohnnyBGoode's You want fries with that? TB was retrieved from the New Hampshire cache that it was resting in by cacher cknh who passed it on to more active cacher Hillgrove.

ITCHYthirdEYE has retrieved his own SPANK, the Monkey TB from Not for the Faint Hearted and then dipped SPANK into his own Itchys' Alternatives - Bargain Bucket, adding 8.7 miles to it's distance travelled.

UK89camaro has retrieved his Piston head Pete (and Dave!) Travel Bug from last month's EmCache Event Cache and logged him into the EmCache 2nd Birthday Event, i.e. The Finishing Line, adding 6.4 miles to make a total distance travelled of 2673.6 miles, 18 caches visited in 6 UK counties and 2 overseas countries, whilst in the hands of 13 cachers, excluding Discovereds.

Cacher Miniature Hero has placed RascalGaskells' Cachehopper TB into this cache, published 2 days ago, but so-far unfound, adding 9.3 miles to it's distance travelled.

German cacher Blauber has placed Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug into this German cache, adding 450.4 miles to it's distance travelled.

Good news for oceanblue07970's Pat's Special Delivery Travel Bug at last, as he has been picked up by French cacher buckfast who has dipped Pat into this French cache, not only adding 604.7 miles to Pat's distance travelled, but also adding the much-coveted Overseas Travel asterisk. Now, can Pat get back to the UK in the next 16 days?! BTW, is anyone besides myself amused by the fact that a Frenchman would name himself after notorious Devon tonic wine, tipple of choice for Scots teenagers?

Finally, Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! TB has been retrieved from Bream Dream by cacher Pieman.

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.

The Finishing Post has been erected!

EmCache's 2nd Birthday Event Cache has been published. This Event, on October 19th, is the finishing line for the 2009 / 2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race. To be classed as a finisher in The Race an entry must be present at the Event Cache.

Due to this, after a suggestion from uk89camaro, I have listed above the current race positions, based on distance travelled, the entries that have so far been logged into the Event, and can therefore be considered to be "In The Clubhouse".