In Sunday’s episode, you claimed you were racing worse than any other team in the show’s history. Looking back, is that true?
Lance: Probably not the worst of all time. We blew the driving. Bottom line is we just couldn’t navigate Dubai.
Keri: We hadn’t slept in a very, very long time. In hindsight, we should have got directions; then found the car. Everything was moving so fast. But even when you got directions, the exits were often spelled differently. The language was so different.
Lance: We should have stuck with the group. Once the caravan left, we were screwed. Losing five minutes in race time is like losing an hour in real time.
Your line, “No cheap wins” referred to your hatred of wins based on luck. Can you blame any of your Philimination on luck?
Lance: Some people didn’t like that. I just said what was on my mind. Going out sucks no matter what, but it would have sucked more if it were because we couldn’t get on a plane. As far as the Dubai leg, we all came in at the same time. Certain factors that keep you in the airport are out for your control.
Lance: There was a love fest going on between the teams and that carried over into the game. Cheyne and Meghan did a fast forward and no one challenged them. The brothers waited for the girls when their car broke down. That was not my mentality. When we were in the heat of the battle, I put myself in a position where I hated the others teams. We weren’t going to help anybody or wait for anybody unless it benefited us somehow.
Keri: You can personally like people. But when it is competition time, we leave that on the sidelines.
Lance was the guy viewers loved to hate, yet others defend you. Marcy even called you a sweetheart.
Keri: His secret is out. His image is ruined.
Do you think it was a fair edit?
Lance: If you’re going to [complain] about the edit, you shouldn’t have gone on a reality show in the first place. I gave them every bite they used to tell their story and I’m fine with it. I didn’t come on to be the hero or the villain. There was not much gripping enough about our story for America to jump on the Lance and Keri bandwagon. We weren’t the all-girl team. We weren’t coming out. We weren’t the black and white couple. We were the people that came to win.
Keri: They have hours of footage and there’s no way to show it all. If you compare our first leg to our last, you see that we came a long way. We grew as a team.
Did it help or hurt your relationship?
Keri: As a couple, we’re stronger for it. Before the Race, we’d never gotten in a big fight. Competition brings out a different side of people and we learned to respect those differences.
Lance: I wasn’t a great teammate at the start. I was a one-man band. By Cambodia, we were working together and leaning on each other. My recommendation is not to go on this show to test your relationship.
Did the wedding happen?
Lance: It did. Honestly, the two weeks after we got back and leading up to the wedding were more stressful than racing. Then I was really getting yelled at.
Keri: My dress hadn’t come in and the catering wasn’t decided. I was stressed. But nothing compared to walking down the aisle and seeing Lance’s face, knowing that we had gone through this stressful competition and were now sure we were meant to be together.
How was the Race as a honeymoon option?
Keri: It was like a working honeymoon. Couples pay for therapy and do roleplay and we can see where our communication breaks down on TV.
Lance: Elimination Station was more like a honeymoon at the beach. It was relaxing and we got to spend time with the others without competition in the way.
Keri: It was cool to find out that Garrett and Jess had gotten engaged because I had someone to talk about weddings with. Monty Brinton.
