Ammer wrote:
Is Meredith and Gretchen the longest lasting old couple? They seem like it. They knocked off two strong teams. Ha.
Don and Mary Jean (if you don't count Teri and Ian who were only a few years older than Chip and Kim) held the title for the longest lasting senior couple but that was only because the first elimination leg was bumped down to one of the first legs. They were then eliminated the leg after that.
Merideth and Gretchen now holds the title and who knows? They might keep going with it
I also disagree with the people that said that this leg is stupid because there were no BUNCHING UP. If I was in the race and had a five hour lead only to be ruined by a BUNCHING up point, I'd be really really mad and frustrated.
When watching this show, the only time that I like seeing bunching up is when one of my favorite teams are lagging behind hence giving them a chance to catch up to the other teams. Last season was horrible with bunching up, it had it in every episode.
Also, all the teams departed at no more than thirty minutes away from each other with the smallest time between departing being one minute with Ron and Kelly and Rob and Amber. The Brothers were only a few minutes behind Merideth and Gretchen meaning that they could have caught up with them easily but made wrong decisions and messed up along the way causing them to lose valuable time.
The Brothers (from an interview) said that they were hours behind the other teams so even if they didn't change into their swimming trunks, they still would have been last. They were horrible racers last tuesday and they also said that they spent thirty to forty minutes just trying to get the goats.
Bottom line is, even if they were first-fifth to depart, they still would have gotten last place.