Race from Middle-Earth: 5 Month update
Roughly 5 months ago, I set 23 New Brunswick trackables free at an event in Wellington, New Zealand, in a race around the world. The winner of the race is the cacher who firsts gets his TB back in his hand in New Brunswick. Since I last posted an update in May, there have been some significant movements of a couple of TBs, and there are now 6 TBs within 2,000 km of home.
The list below shows the locations of the TBs as of August 11th. Those in bold are closest to winning the race; those in italics are not in the race but were released at the same time.
| Geocacher | Trackable | May 27th, 2013 | August 11th, 2013 |
| Cableguy | TB58NBH | Wairarapa, New Zealand | Tokomaru, New Zealand |
| châtelaine | TB5B82N | Wanaka, New Zealand | Saint-Eustache, Québec, Canada |
| Freedom Five | TB4P0Y7 | Arrowtown, New Zealand | Arrowtown, New Zealand |
| heathtree (NB to NZ) | TB4EX37 | Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada | Châteauguay, Québec, Canada |
| heathtree (NZ to NB) | TB53AKV | Geelong, Victoria, Australia | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| herrminnz | TB3MDZ2 | Auckland, New Zealand | Auckland, New Zealand |
| jim52 | TBVC84 | Silver Spring, Maryland, USA | Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA |
| LOTR Ringª | TB2290N | Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada | Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada |
| markirene | TBTD0T | Shannon, New Zealand | Shannon, New Zealand |
| Misha | TB10TJQ | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| NBGamer22 | TB58NBT | Perth, Western Australia, Australia | Granby, Québec, Canada |
| Orange Code | TB4HR3A | Newcastle, Ontario, Canada | Minden, Ontario, Canada |
| Paulie | TB5B7YF | Wellington, New Zealand | Wellington, New Zealand |
| pettycache506 | TB5B7K5 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Dayton, Ohio, USA |
| Pikpik | TB5F7JX | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | Kanata, Ontario, Canada |
| Pintle&Gudgeon | TB5AADR | Wairarapa, New Zealand | Western Australia, Australia |
| Rev Slippery | TB274AX | Black Canyon City, Arizona, USA | Black Canyon City, Arizona, USA |
| scouterscott | TB4EWQC | Auckland, New Zealand | Netherby, New Zealand |
| TheNinjaJedi | TB53AKA | Christchurch, New Zealand | Wanaka, New Zealand |
| Tiger Tracker | TB53AMC | Hamilton, New Zealand | Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia |
| TreeHugger21 | TB4EWY6 | Geelong, Victoria, Australia | Macedon, Victoria, Australia |
| Walden07 | TB4MPKV | Mount Vernon, Washington, USA | Brentwood, California, USA |
| Zor | TB58NEA | Geelong, Victoria, Australia | Geelong, Victoria, Australia |
Cool idea for a race, surprised how many have made it to North America. Its going to be a close race. One in Quebec and one in Maine now
Congrats to Orange Code as her TB was the first to make it back
from New Zealand ( Race from Middle Earth ) TB4HR3A