GCJVW4 Bicycle Races, 20, Celebration Ride Into Paris (Traditional Cache) in Texas, United States created by bennet and mglory

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bennet: I checked on this one a couple of days ago. It's gone. Ammo can and all.
I don't plan on replacing it.
I'll do another TdF game this coming year. This one will have no Lance. Interesting.

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A cache by bennet and mglory Message this owner

Hidden : 7/2/2004

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This cache is the final stage of a caching game celebrating the Tour de France. This cache is the culmination of a contest, a race, a game of gathering points for FTFs, in geocaching terms. Whoever gathers the most points in this game will be first given the coordinates to this final cache, which will contain a trophy award for first place. The cache will also contain awards for second and third places. Please read on.

NOTE: By 26 July 2004, the Bicycle Races cache competition and game was concluded, and awards were distributed. This cache now remains as a standard, traditional cache located at the above coordinates. The cache container is an ammo box.

Bicycle Races players' stats are updated as of 28 July 2004. Stats will not be updated on this page from this point forward as caches that acted as stages in the game are found.

Along with geocaching and other past times, we love cycling. We love to ride bicycles, talk about bicycles, read about bicycles, and watch others ride bicycles.

So July is an exciting month. The Tour de France, cycling's largest world event, kicks off on 3 July with the first stage, the Prologue at Liége. The great race continues on an almost daily basis, ending on 25 July, with the Stage 20 ride, the Montereau-Fault-Yonne-Paris Champs_É'lysées.

This cache correlates to that Stage 20 ride. The Tour is won in the stages preceding the last stage, and the last Stage 20 ride takes a slow and leisurely pace. The last stage is a celebration of the event. Similarly, this cache game will have already been won when this final cache is found. This final cache will contain the prizes for those that won the earlier stages. This final cache will be the celebration of the long series of caches.

This year, American/Texan Lance Armstrong has an excellent potential to become the only cyclist in history to win the Tour six times.

To celebrate the Tour and to show our support for Lance, we have come up with a sort of a "tour de caches". Basically, we are hiding a lot of caches, all around the local area, over the next month. We are hiding one cache for each stage of the tour. So that means a new cache almost daily in the local area for a month. Together, all these caches form a game (or race), in the same manner as the Tour.

We hope that local cachers will participate in this game. Described below are all the ins and outs of how this thing is going to work.

Each cache is a 35mm container that contains a standard log sheet, and each is its own cache, and will exist and remain as a separate cache for as long as any standard cache can be.

Inside each cache is a small clear plastic container that the first finder should take. We are asking anyone who is the first to find one of these caches to please remove and take the internal container, regardless of whether or not he or she is playing the game.

Inside each clear plastic container is a claim ticket. A claim ticket will contain the following information...

The name of the cache/stage.
An authorization code.
The number of miles (points) associated with that cache/stage.

Any cacher who is the first to find one of these caches will be awarded the number of miles (points) associated with that cache/stage. If Lance also wins that stage in the Tour, or he is wearing the yellow jersey at the end of that stage in the Tour, or the USPS Team wins the Team Time Trial, then the cacher is awarded double points for that cache/stage.

A cacher will accumulate points for all caches that he/she/they find first. A running total will be kept for each cacher, and the cacher with the highest total by the end of the game will win the game.

The names of the cachers participating in this game will be displayed on this webpage along with their running totals. See below.

Following are clarifications and rules...

Players will claim points by identifying the Authorization Code on their on-line log, by email, or by calling a telephone number. Instructions are on the claim tickets.
There is no time limit in claiming points, other than 26 July. For example, if Stage 2 is not found the first day it becomes available, the points can be claimed whenever it is found, even weeks down the road, as long as it is before the game ends on 26 July. Official cutoff for claiming points is 1200noon on 26 July. Any codes that are not received by 1200noon on 26 July will not be considered for points.
Only first finders can claim points for a cache/stage. Points cannot be transferred. We are trying to emulate the Tour, and a cyclist who crosses the finish line in second place for a stage cannot get credit for first.
Caches will be submitted to approvers/reviewers in sequence and at the rate that the Tour de France progresses. We are at the mercy of the approvers, so the timing of cache postings may not be exact.
The points associated with each cache are based on the miles for the corresponding Tour stage as represented by the 7 July issue of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

All these caches will be distributed as evenly as possible around the Fort Worth area, extending from west Fort Worth through east Fort Worth and beyond into Arlington and the HEB area, so that no advantages are gained by proximity. However, the caches will not extend into Dallas and the Dallas area. We are based in west Fort Worth and cannot reasonably maintain caches in those areas.

Listed below are the caches in this game, some of which, as you are reading this, have yet to be posted.

Bicycle Races, Prologue, Liége. – Points Available: 3.8 or 7.6
Winner: Lotus And Meowdoc win 3.8 points with the code “Surfing With The Alien”.
Bicycle Races, 1, Liége-Charleroi. – Points Available: 125.8 or 251.6
Winner: Lotus And Meowdoc win 125.8 points with the code “In Your Eyes”.
Bicycle Races, 2, Charleroi-Namur. – Points Available: 122.4 or 244.8
Winner: Lotus And Meowdoc win 122.4 points with the code “Almost Honest”.
Bicycle Races, 3, Waterloo-Wasquehal. – Points Available: 130.5 or 261.0
Winner: Lotus And Meowdoc win 130.5 points with the code “Love Thing”.
Bicycle Races, 4, Cambrai-Arras. – Points Available: 40.1 or 80.2
Winner: Lotus And Meowdoc win 80.2 points (double points due to the USPS team win) with the code “Crazy Train”.
Bicycle Races, 5, Amiens-Chartres. – Points Available: 124.6 or 249.2
Winner: javaman123 wins 124.6 points with the code “Dust In The Wind”.
Bicycle Races, 6, Bonneval-Angers. – Points Available: 121.8 or 243.6
Winner: Mendei wins 121.8 points with the code “Carribean Blue”.
Bicycle Races, 7, Châteaubriant-Saint Brieuc. – Points Available: 127.1 or 254.2
Winner: javaman123 wins 127.1 points with the code “Nights In White Satin”.
Bicycle Races, 8, Lamballe-Quimper. – Points Available: 104.4 or 208.8
Winner: Lotus And Meowdoc win 104.4 points with the code “Whiskey In The Jar”.
Bicycle Races, 9, Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat-Guéret. – Points Available: 99.7 or 199.4
Winner: rikidoo wins 99.7 points with the code “Every Breath You Take”.
Bicycle Races, 10, Limoges-Saint Flour. – Points Available: 147.3 or 294.6
Winner: Nitehawker win 147.3 points with the code “Call Of The Ktulu”.
Bicycle Races, 11, Saint Flour-Figeac. – Points Available: 101.9 or 203.8
Winner: Lotus And Meowdoc win 101.9 points with the code “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For”.
Bicycle Races, 12, Castelsarrasin-La Mongie. – Points Available: 122.7 or 245.4
Winner: Lotus And Meowdoc win 122.7 points with the code “If I Could Fly”.
Bicycle Races, 13, Lannemezan-Plateau de Beille. – Points Available: 127.7 or 255.4
Winner: Lotus And Meowdoc win 255.4 points (double points due to Lance winning the stage) with the code “Layla”.
Bicycle Races, 14, Carcassonne-Nîmes. – Points Available: 119.6 or 239.2
Winner: Mendei wins 119.6 points with the code “High Voltage”.
Bicycle Races, 15, Valréas-Villard-de-Lans. – Points Available: 112.2 or 224.4
Winner: Mendei wins 224.4 points (double points due to Lance winning the stage and the yellow jersey) with the code “Gold Dust Woman”.
Bicycle Races, 16, Bourg d’Oisans-L’Alpe d’Huez. – Points Available: 9.6 or 19.2.
Winner: Mendei wins 19.2 points (double points due to Lance winning the stage and keeping the yellow jersey) with the code “Fire And Rain”.
Bicycle Races, 17, Bourg d’Oisans-Le Grand Bornand. – Points Available: 127.1 or 254.2.
Winner: Mendei wins 254.2 points (double points due to Lance winning the stage and keeping the yellow jersey) with the code “Hero Of The Day”.
Bicycle Races, 18, Annemasse-Lons-le-Saunier. – Points Available: 103.5 or 207.0.
Winner: Nitehawker wins 207.0 points (double points due to Lance keeping the yellow jersey) with the code “Seek And Destroy”.
Bicycle Races, 19, Besancon-Besancon. – Points Available: 34.2 or 68.4.
Winner: Nitehawker wins 68.4 points (double points due to Lance winning the stage and keeping the yellow jersey) with the code “House Full Of Bullets”.
Bicycle Races, 20, Celebration Ride Into Paris. (This Cache). – Points Available: No Points. Just Awards.
Winners: Lotus/Meowdoc, Mendei, and Nitehawker crossed the final Bicycle Races finish line (this cache) in order of their final standings. Congratulations to them and all game participants.

Listed below are the standings...

Current Standing	Player/Team	Stages Won	Total Points
1st	Lotus And Meowdoc	Prologue, 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11, 12, 13	1047.1
2nd	Mendei	6, 14, 15, 16, 17	739.2
3rd	Nitehawker	10, 18, 19	422.7
4th	javaman123	5, 7	251.7
5th	rikidoo	9	99.7
Peloton	martinp13
Peloton	Team mcdoodles
Peloton	Geo Dee
Peloton	Ex135navigator
Peloton	loubob57
Peloton	TeddyTexas
Peloton	perseid88
Peloton	me, maat & rijn
Peloton	HobbledNinja

NOTE: Players' stats above and below are up to date as of 28 July 2004.
They are now frozen in time.
These presentations of stats will not be updated as cachers subsequently and continue to find stages of this game.

Player/Team

Lotdoc

Mendei

Nitehawker

javaman123

rikidoo

martinp13

TeddyTexas

mcdoodles

loubob57

perseid88

Ex135navigator

Geo Dee

me, maat & rijn

HobbledNinja

Now get on your bikes and ride!

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Bicycle Races, 20, Celebration Ride Into Paris Traditional Cache

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