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Back at the Roadblock, ror some reason, Team HSN has a side project of kissing as many task people as possible and with Claire giving the Roadblock cluemaster a peck on the cheek, they are apparently up to six kisses. This added game seems awfully weird and wholly unnecessary but to each his/her own. Michael & Kevin get their clue first and depart for a train station with the other three not far behind them.

As the second grouping gears up for the Roadblock with Connor, Stephanie (who REALLY wants a dog…hint, hint Chad), Nick and volleyballer Rachel doing the honors, Jill & Thomas appear to have made up some headway, only to squander it by not noticing the marked path and they begin running about a mile in the wrong direction. Please see my previous admonishment of teams not paying attention to the fact that every route marker/marked path/race flag is the same color. I will give Thomas credit for not exploding at Jill for the mess up like would have been expected but Thomas and Chad, the other guy with potential aggressive tendencies, have surprised me with their lack of outbursts.

Michael & Kevin get to the train station first, which incidentally has no relevance to the Detour. The Detour is Sleds or Beds. For Sleds, both team members have to use a tech sled to reach the bottom of a downhill course in less than one minute and 58 seconds. For Beds, they have to construct an old school tent and bedding with fire pit. Knowing that Michael is the least physically fit of any one on the race, Kevin concedes going with the fun task and they head to Beds.

The doctors are in second and opt for Sleds, as do each of the other two teams in the first batch. The first attempt is foiled by Kat banking a turn and going through the netting. They have little to worry about, though, because Gary & Mallory get exactly 1:58 on their first try, which is one second shy of beating that time. More successful on their second run, Nat & Kat get the final clue first and head to the Norwegian border. That is where they end up – as team number one.

And even though they were fourth at the Detour, Team HSN aces the Sleds on the first shot which puts them as the second team heading to the pitstop but Gary & Mallory smoke the course on their second run by about 30 seconds and are on their heels. In an inconsequential footrace to Phil for second and third place, Gary & Mallory reclaim second and Team HSN takes third.

At the Detour, Michael & Kevin have seemingly staved off elimination and finish the Detour with more than half of the teams behind them; they officially get in at the pitstop in fourth.

Connor & Jonathan start their Sleds with a stoked Chad and scared Stephanie behind them. Chad’s better half expresses extreme trepidation toward the challenge. Based upon the "skills" that she demonstrates with numerous crashes, she would have been better off if they could just roll down the course. The ire of Chad is starting to flare up in the heat of the competition. He should take solace in the fact that he’s not on the same team as the supremely inept sledders of Team Glee. They fall over and over and log times that initially just miss the mark but get comically bad after each attempt.

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