The Amazing Race finished up with its Season 26 finale last Friday and Hayley and Blair were left to explain their loss following their ouster of the contest.
Hayley and Blair fell short of the $1 million prize in the race against three other teams from Peru to Dallas after Hayley committed a major botch on the Reunion Tower Roadblock.
The duo spoke with TVGuide.com about their elimination and failure to win the cash prize.
Hayley explained what caused her trouble on the Reunion Tower Roadblock.
"I saw this little thing in the parking lot, and it was race colors, so I just thought that had to be it," she told the site. "I was like, 'It's gonna be something really small, not something obvious.' I had such attention to detail that I looked for the littlest things and not something big and obvious! That's what did it in for me, being too particular"
Hayley also said that she didn't quite see the flags.
"You know, I caught a glimpse of those, but I thought, 'Eh, that's nothing over there,' because of where it was," she said. "It was like an abandoned area, so I thought [the parking lot] was perfect. It was right on top of a building. It has race colors. Honestly, from where I could see, it looked like a clue box. ... I think we had a 20-minute lead on [the other teams], maybe more. I know we saw them pull in, but I don't think they saw us after that. I wish I could say it was strategy that we wanted to leave them before they could follow us! But it wasn't! It was just a mistake."
The tandem lost out to eventual winners Laura Pierson and Tyler Adams despite having a healthy lead over them.
"You know, when it came down to it, I don't even know if we would've won with our lead because the selfie challenge was hard for us," Hayley said. "They didn't show us doing it, but we took a long time. We were too busy taking in the moments and enjoying the scenery on the race and we would forget about taking selfies. We'd get somewhere and we were just in awe. ... When we would take selfies, it would be at airports or on trains. That was when we would think about it. Our selfies were kind of bland! "
One thing fans picked up on during the course of the season was Hayley's constant nagging of Blair, which she admitted may have been a fault of hers.
"Yeah, I do think I should've gone easier on Blair," she said. "At the time, I just felt like I was disregarded. I get it. Blair's first impression of me was me not doing so great in the mud run. I think I was able to prove myself later on. Unfortunately, those things came later. I know Blair will agree with me on this, but I did a lot of the physical challenges! We weren't getting along at first because we didn't know each other and we didn't have a chance to know each other. Our brief instances I felt like weren't enough. But once I got to know Blair, I realized that Blair's just a natural leader. That's how he needs to be in his medical and military careers. He needs to be a person who takes charge and goes with it. Once I got to know him, I realized he wasn't being disrespectful or being malicious or writing me off."
Added Blair: "Yeah, I remember saying this on a casting video or something ... that clichéd answer of, 'Yeah, I'm going to be introduced to a stranger and we're gonna have to figure out each other's strengths and weaknesses.' That was the party line. I figured it might take until the airport to figure it out, but it was a work in progress the whole time. It was figuring out what's worth arguing about, what is her strength in any given situation, what is mine. We tried our best to be compatible. I said this at the end, but I trust Hayley and her instincts to a very impressive degree. I'm still a little confused in certain situations, but correct me if I'm wrong, Hayley, but just being in stressful environments when we needed an answer quickly ... that's very anxiety-ridden. Some of the times I think it came out in a different way for Hayley, raising her voice at me. I remember thinking the first few times, 'Man, how can I do a better job making this not happen?'"
The Amazing Race will return to CBS with Season 27 in fall 2015.
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