Travel Bug Dog Tag Trophy

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Owner:
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Released:
Monday, February 14, 2005
Origin:
Illinois, United States
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Current Goal

Trophy Travelbug by TrailRun

I love running trails, and mud's the best,
Please give me a hand in running west.

Basic mission: WEST Please move me west if possible, but if not I'd just like to keep moving. My owner will post his running mileage and see if he can outrun me. My preference is to hit some good trails on the way west, and then to make the jump to Lahaina, Maui.

About This Item

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Although I'm a long way from winning hardware, I love to run, and geocaching has provided me with a lot of new and interesting destinations.

Around the time I turned 40, my brother inspired me to run my first marathon and it has been very rewarding.

I began trail running during marathon training and my favorite events have been on trails, including Dances With Dirt (www.danceswithdirt.com), and the Tecumseh Trail Marathon (www.dinoseries.com).

The starting cache for this TB is near one of my favorite trails. The mud on the trophy was inspired by the "This Sucks" leg of Dances with Dirt. Here's my loooong race report from DWD 2005: (Visit link)

Up until March 12, 2007 I was holding my own against Trophy, but it made a big move and I have some catching up to do. The graph below shows the mileage over time. On November 17, 2007 Trophy reached its goal of reaching Lahaina, Maui and it is now stopped (I hope) with my brother. Maybe sometime I'll catch up. I plan to keep logging miles here as I make progress. (That will be slow in the near future until some knee problems are resolved.)

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Tracking History (12574.4mi) View Map

Retrieve It from a Cache 7/22/2005 Jakesdiner retrieved it from Crossroads Illinois   Visit Log

On the move!

  • Crossroads
Dropped Off 7/22/2005 Jakesdiner placed it in Crossroads Illinois - 6.69 miles  Visit Log
Write note 7/22/2005 TrailRun posted a note for it   Visit Log

Uh, oh. 😮 Most of Michigan is more than 174.71 miles away, which seemed like a good lead until now.
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/22/2005 Jakesdiner retrieved it from Night Sky Illinois   Visit Log

Warming up with a couple of caches before our trip to Michigan.
Better get running Trophys going to pull ahead.

  • Night Sky
Dropped Off 7/22/2005 Jakesdiner placed it in Night Sky Illinois - 4.67 miles  Visit Log
Write note 7/15/2005 TrailRun posted a note for it   Visit Log

Ack! Trophy makes it look so easy. 90+ miles just like that. I'm ahead by 129.97, but Jakesdiner now has me wondering what this tour is going to entail.
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/15/2005 Jakesdiner retrieved it from Easier in Winter Illinois   Visit Log

I think I'm going to tour with this trophy so it could gain on it owner.
Jake

  • At the cache
Dropped Off 7/15/2005 Jakesdiner placed it in Easier in Winter Illinois - 5.54 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/25/2005 Jakesdiner retrieved it from NORMAL Summer Cache Bash 1 Illinois   Visit Log

Will move along soon!!!
Write note 6/23/2005 TrailRun posted a note for it   Visit Log

So trophy is on the move again. I've had a lot of time to build up some miles while this thing was sitting around. Woo hoo, I'm still up by 118.52 miles!
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