Travel Bug Dog Tag Trophy

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Released:
Monday, February 14, 2005
Origin:
Illinois, United States
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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.

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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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Write note 6/14/2007 TrailRun posted a note for it   Visit Log

No no, that's OK. No hurry to put it back in circulation...

This time the math is easy. No running for now, so I'm 2925.29 miles behind.

I did register for a fall marathon again, so I'm hopeful about getting many miles in before then, but I don't think I'll be able to match last year's personal record time.
Dropped Off 6/14/2007 brensdo's placed it in Sow Your Oats Montana - 2.56 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/12/2007 brensdo's retrieved it from Huff 'n' Puff Montana   Visit Log

Picked up from Huff'n' Puff this morning will head west!
Write note 6/7/2007 TrailRun posted a note for it   Visit Log

Good cache for this travel bug. 🙂
I'm 2922.69 miles behind now and the difference is rapidly increasing. Ironically, this is the day that I had a doctor visit about my knee, and as part of the plan I need to lay off running for two weeks. I'm doing some swimming, biking, and more caching in the meantime, but it will be a bit until I can chip away at the distance.

When I get a chance I may figure out the straight line distance to Maui and also count my miles against that. This TB is really taking the scenic route, so maybe I can run the straight line distance to Maui before it gets there.
Dropped Off 6/7/2007 B-Dals placed it in Huff 'n' Puff Montana - 562.95 miles  Visit Log
Write note 5/20/2007 TrailRun posted a note for it   Visit Log

This note was long in coming. My running miles are way down due to a knee problem, but I finally got the mileage difference under 2400. Only 2390.85 miles to go.
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/6/2007 B-Dals retrieved it from Travel Bug Junction Idaho   Visit Log

Will help this runner along. Not going to Hawaii until January, so I won't keep it that long. Will try to get it further west though.

Write note 4/16/2007 TrailRun posted a note for it   Visit Log

Oh! Wait! Woo hoo! With today's run I'm less than 2500 miles behind - 2498.14.

This weekend I'll be running on a River to River Relay team. Should be fun. http://rrr.olm.net/
Write note 4/16/2007 TrailRun posted a note for it   Visit Log

Very cool picture with the coach and congratulations to him! That's a bit of inspiration for me to think about.
Write note 4/15/2007 TrailRun posted a note for it   Visit Log

Ack! 2504.65 miles behind and falling farther behind faster.
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