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Amazing Race Training: HIIT Workout

If there was one thing I learned from our time on The Amazing Race, it was how to get out of my comfort zone. If you watched the show, you know this included all sorts of challenges for us like…

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Amazing Race Training: Gaining Strength For Life 

We all know how important it is to build strength, especially as we age. In my 20s, I would run six miles a day but I couldn’t do more than a few push-ups without reaching exhaustion. Though I’ve tried to…

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Amazing Race Training: Running Workout

What you saw on The Amazing Race: Us showing up out of breath to every single challenge.  What you didn’t see: The crazy long run or mad dash sprint to get there.  There is so much it isn’t possible to…

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How We Got In Shape for The Amazing Race

The Amazing Race is a famously grueling show in which teams of two travel the globe conquering physical (and sometimes mental and emotional) challenges. In our mid-40s, we knew we’d be some of the older competitors. We wanted to be as…

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Forcing Myself Out Of My Comfort Zone

It was exactly this time last year, when Penn and I set out to finish filming our season of The Amazing Race. The pandemic, very rudely, shut down production in 2020 and we were getting the chance to finish what…

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When In Doubt, Remember Who You Are

I’ve made a commitment to make my mental health a priority and I’ve been writing about it here every day in September. And sometimes, just sometimes, what I need is a good pep talk.  My love language is NOT “words…

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A Surgery Forced Me To Rest

Leave it to me to make a promise to blog every day in September, then have a surgery on my wrist. It turns out you need a wrist to type. This blog ambition is my way of making my mental…

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Amazing Race Prize & Your Questions

“So what did you do with your winnings from The Amazing Race?” is probably the most common question we get asked recently. But when we asked this wonderful community if you had questions for us (WHEW…) you came up with…

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My ADHD Slump

I am in a serious slump. I would call it writer’s block, but it’s not just that. But it is partially that. I have written like 15 drafts of this and sadly, the one you get to read is the…

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The Amazing Race Recap: It’s Phil!

For those of you who have been on this journey of The Amazing Race with us for the past few months, you know we’ve been interviewing as many of our co-contestants as possible. To wrap up these bonus podcast episodes,…

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