Archive for the ‘ The Amazing Race ’ Category

Worst to First and First to Worst

Jet and Cord did the unthinkable, so did Steve and Allie. And thank god for Tivo (I was watching the Boston vs. New York game. Go Sox!). But I digress. It was history in the making Sunday night on The Amazing Race. It was the first time ever that a last place team (Jet and [...]

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Keeping Up With The Kar, er, CitySolve

The first 3 months have flown by and we’re not even 25% of the way through CitySolve Urban Race series. Here’s a quick and funny recap: CitySolve Urban Race Honolulu raised $1,028 for the Honolulu Academy of Arts CitySolve Urban Race Honolulu was our biggest first time event at nearly 200 enthusiastic racers HNL racers [...]

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My Picks for The Amazing Race 16

I would first like to say that I have not seen what this season’s The Amazing Race participants look like, smell like, how tall or short they are, if they have a lazy eye or X-ray vision but here are my rankings (worst to first) sight unseen. I’m basing these rankings the same way George [...]

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I hope he gets a hair cut

Meghan & Cheyne won Season 15 of The Amazing Race. Eh, I kinda figured that. They were a great team. I actually liked them and wanted them to win. I couldn’t get into this season of TAR. I think it’s because there wasn’t a Rob & Amber or Marge & Luke to route against. I [...]

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Tammy & Victor WIN!!! YES!

The final 3 (Tammy & Victor, Jaime & Cara and Margie & Luke) made their way from Beijing to Maui…the final leg of the race! Tammy & Victor, Jaime & Cara got a little case of the H1N1 while trying to carry a traditional luau pig 200 yards along a sandy beach. ROAD BLOCK – [...]

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Jen & Kisha deserved to lose

This episode Margie turned her anger on Luke and vice versa. This is annoying. The good news is that I only have to watch one more episode with them. I do hope to meet them one day and I hope they are nice people and CBS is just making them out to be monsters. DETOUR: [...]

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I get so emotional, baby…

The sixth leg of the race was one of the most emotional parts of the Luke and Cara become overwhelmed by the poverty in India. I agree, it is very sad to see animals and children eating garbage and running around in these terrible conditions ROAD BLOCK Care for Camel – a member must feed [...]

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Running in your underwear

Teams continued through the arctic in the 5th leg in a race around the world via the Trans-Siberian Railway! In this episode we find out a lot: 1. Victor is sneakier than we thought. He momentarily formed an alliance with Margie & Luke to find the a DETOUR task, but then got directions on his [...]

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Amazing Racers to Race HTA Austin

Hey Austin, you think you got what it takes to beat Amazing Racers!?! Now here’s your chance when High Trek Adventure bring its unique urban adventure race to Austin. That right Jodi Wincheski, Kelly Crabb and Christy Cook will all be in attendance on Saturday, April 11 in the live music capital of the world. [...]

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You Just Got U-Turned! Crap!

Teams left the land of Dracula and flying to Siberia where the must find the dam on the back of the 10 Russian Ruble bill. (Wow! Mark and Michael are really short! Especially when standing next to Kisha and Jen.) DETOUR Stack vs. Contruct (this task tested the wills of most of the teams) Stack [...]

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