And so it starts again.

To check on the progress of this years all new and shiney bug race 'The Lazy Pig Bug Race' ( named in honour of last years gallant loser ) check out : lazypigrace.blogspot.com

Final Result of the Race

Slight delay in posting the final results but here goes:

1. Smiley Traveller -10134
2. Green Frog Compass - 10079.4
3. Fredator - 6086.6
4. Blue Mouse Compass - 5961.9
5. Sherbert - 5935.6
6. Ovis - 2227.4
7. Bonzo's Angry Sheep Racer - 561.6
8. Gilbert  - 487.1
9. Dolly - 344.8
10. Pigassou - 15.6
    

So congratulations to John for winning the race and thank you to all the geocachers that have moved our bugs around the globe and made the race possible.

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Congrats John

Well done, John!

Last weekend of the race

Well the last weekend of the race is nearly here, this prompts a few questions like:

• Will we see everyone make it into at least 4 digit miles?
  
• Will Pigassou make it past 15.6 miles?
  
• Can the frog make up those few miles to pip the smiler?

All nail biting stuff I'm sure you'll agree :-)

Dipping :-(

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Go Gilbert!

Dolly's always like the word 'penultimate'...

Just over 2 weeks to go

Still close.....

The home stretch

Well we are now into November, the race has less than a month left before the winner is crowned. Time may be short but it's still wide open, anyone could grab victory (OK may be not me or Jamie but you never know .........)

Are you a follower?

I've been wondering how many people come and look at the blog so to satisfy my curiosity I have added in the followers widget.

If you are keeping track of the race here please add yourself in!

He's back in action...

... Smiley Traveller has crossed the pond and is currently sunning it in New Mexico!

RIP - Smiley Traveller

I suspect Smiley Traveller is MIA, he has been in the hands of landyrover since 27 August. He has not been seen since, if you have any further information to his whereabouts let me know ;-(

10k!

Green Frog Compass crosses the 10,000 miles mark, woohoo! Badcall moved him from Oregon in the US to a cache on Victoria Island, Canada. Amazingly, it's only 8 miles from Victoria city centre where we were this time last month on a whalewatching trip. Let the consipracy theories start..... :-)

On the move again!!

Woohoo!!!!!! Sherbert's back in the race after a month sabbatical in Leechpool number 5!! Although I must apologise to my American hero - I did curse him a little when I thought he'd gone to Leechpool & not taken me. The tease didn't log me out of that cache until he logged me into Keebler Nitch!

Go froggy go!

Yeeeeha! Froggy jumps over the mouse! :-)

Hello all you fellow racers from Vancouver... see you soon. A&H.

Woooooooow

Blue Frog Compass, last to launch but now catapulted to 1st place!

What's is the black and white magic grid thing for on the picture of the sheep?

This was a question asked recently by one of the travelbugs recent travelling companions, the answer is a barcode. This barcode can be scanned by phones with compatible software and it will direct you this website, very cool in a geeky way :-)

Certainly a number of Nokia devices are capable of doing this, I would imagine others as well. If you want to read more about the mobile code barcodes take a look on the Nokia site here.

Live Stats Fixed!

What do you mean you didnt know they were broken? :-)

The main geocaching website has had a bit of a face lift and this broke the live stats last night, a minor fix this morning and it's all working again.

Green Frog Compass is off on holiday

Green Frog Compass has been picked up from itsallaboutthenumbers by Jennytempest, who is hopefully taking him to California / Hawaii in August :-)

We have lift-off!

Green Frog Compass and Blue Mouse Compass have been launched this lunchtime!

Frog is in "It's All About The Numbers" and Mouse is in "A Different Approach to Recycling".

May they travel far. Further than Jamie's pig anyway ;-)

Real time stats!

As you may have noticed, above you will now find a live stats panel that shows you the current mileage for the racing bugs. The panel can be a little slow to load so be patient!