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Wilsonatmd
Member
01-23-2001
| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 10:09 am
Terence and Sarah have been dating for almost a year, but they couldn't be more different. Sarah has an MBA from Wharton and is often the only woman in meetings during her long days working on Wall Street, while Terence sells real estate to pay the bills and satisfies his true passion by coaching runners. Sarah claims that the biggest difference between the two is that she is lower maintenance and Terence is more emotional. However, she believes they share a competitive spirit and they’re smart, energetic, adventurous as well as fearless. Terence describes himself as witty, sensitive and driven. One of his proudest accomplishments is finishing the last two New York City Marathons in under three hours. This Team is determined to prove to themselves whether they belong together while on the Race. They hope that being well-traveled, physically fit, and highly competitive will help them win the $1 million. They think their biggest weakness could be the tendency to become too intense, fighting amongst themselves, or their dietary restrictions. Regardless of whether they win or not, this adventure will definitely be a journey that could make or break them.
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Wilsonatmd
Member
01-23-2001
| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 12:21 pm
The "testing the relationship" again give me pause, but the overall strengths of this team (well-travled, athletic, etc.) makes me think this could be the team that has the best shot at least on paper to win the whole thing...but who knows.
| Odds | FIRST OUT | 40-1 | EARLY EXIT | 30-1 | MID-PACK | 15-1 | FINAL THREE | 6-1 | WINNERS | 4-1 | |
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Wilsonatmd
Member
01-23-2001
| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 8:43 pm
BTW- someone who knows them at TWOP says the "dietary restrictions" are that Sarah tries to keep kosher and Terance is a vegetarian...so if a "meatblock"-type Roadblock comes up, they might have some problems...
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 9:06 am
Many years ago I baby-sat for a family that kept kosher - not easy! Separate sets of dishes, utensils, cooking things for meat and milk. I guess Terance could use the "milk" stuff for his vegetarian foods -
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 10:26 am
Wasn't there a couple last season or the season before that kept kosher (and ran into problems at some of the challenges)?
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Wilsonatmd
Member
01-23-2001
| Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 3:19 pm
I looked it up- it was Avi and Joe from Race VI- it didn't matter, they were eliminated in the first couple of legs IIRC....
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, September 12, 2008 - 2:59 pm
Despite the possible diet problem and relationship test. I think they are adorable.. well at least she is, to me.. so I WANT to like them already.
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Angelrsg
Member
08-08-2005
| Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 8:01 am
There is a write up on today's NY Daily News on this couple. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2008/09/27/2008-09-27_new_york_couple_braves_five_continents_o.html Sorry about the link, I'm not very good with making things smaller.
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Angelrsg
Member
08-08-2005
| Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 8:04 am
Here's the story if anybody has problems with the link: New York couple braves five continents on CBS's 'Amazing Race' BY RICH SCHAPIRO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Saturday, September 27th 2008, 8:07 PM Xanthos/News New Yorkers Sarah Leshner and Terence Gerchberg seem like they're winners - after making it through CBS's 'The Amazing Race,' they still like each other! He's a hard-core fitness fanatic who says what's on his mind regardless of the consequences. She's a feisty former Wall Street analyst who has traveled the world and wears her emotions on her sleeve. Meet Terence Gerchberg and Sarah Leshner, a New York couple whose experiences competing against 10 other teams in an around-the-world test of endurance and cunning on CBS' hit show "The Amazing Race" will premiere Sunday night. The reality show, in its 13th season, took contestants across five continents, and proved to be a severe test for Gerchberg and Leshner's budding relationship. "We had a lot of drama," Leshner, 31, told the Daily News. "We're very hysterical and very intense, and whatever was going on, we were screaming." After dating for just a couple of months, Gerchberg, 35, and Leshner went on a hastily planned trip to Russia and Latvia last year. Their friends marveled at how well they traveled together, prompting one pal to suggest that the new couple try out for the show. Days later, Gerchberg, a marathon runner, had downloaded the application materials and began filming an audition video that turned out better than either expected. "We're definitely going to get picked," Gerchberg told Leshner at the time. After the call came this March, the couple began a training regimen that was part boot camp, part "Little House on the Prairie." They worked out nearly every day, hitchhiked across Pennsylvania, milked cows and climbed a mountain. Gerchberg and Leshner also became students of the show. They watched every episode from every season and even went so far as to draw up spreadsheets detailing all of the different types of challenges. Still, once the competition began, they realized one crucial component had been left out of their preparation: sleep-deprivation training. At times, the stress and frustration felt by the couple boiled over, bringing Leshner to tears on more than one occasion. "Until we got into a groove, which I do think we got into, it was just too much," Leshner said. "I couldn't believe we had such a bad dynamic." In the end, though, their love survived - a little bit stronger and a little bit scarred. "It gave us hope, and it gave us concern," Gerchberg said. For Leshner, the experience traveling in some of the world's poorest communities convinced her to drop her banking career and work for a company that focuses on development. "It just felt too strange to return to the Wall Street rat race after the things we had seen and people we had met traveling around the world," Leshner said.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 12:01 pm
I am not much into screaming and drama, but I will try to keep focused on the fact that Sarah's outlook on life was changed by her experiences!
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, September 29, 2008 - 5:12 am
Every year we have a whiney team... and they would be this year's whiners.
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