{"id":838,"date":"2015-10-06T18:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T18:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.porticomagazine.ca\/?p=838"},"modified":"2020-10-28T14:40:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T18:40:35","slug":"football-coach-competes-on-the-amazing-race-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/2015\/10\/football-coach-competes-on-the-amazing-race-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Football coach competes on The Amazing Race Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AmazingRace-NeilKristin-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AmazingRace-NeilKristin-copy-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"U of G football coach competes on The Amazing Race Canada\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AmazingRace-NeilKristin-copy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AmazingRace-NeilKristin-copy-180x270.jpg 180w, https:\/\/porticomagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/AmazingRace-NeilKristin-copy.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>At 62 years old, Neil Lumsden was the oldest competitor on the most recent edition of <em>The Amazing Race Canada<\/em>, which aired over the summer. But when his daughter Kristin, 31, asked him to be her teammate and apply for the show, the U of G assistant football coach and CFL Hall of Famer was up for the challenge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do what you can to help your kids, and I was a fan of the show, so I was up for it,\u201d he says. \u201cYou really have to step outside of your comfort zone in experiences such as this if you want to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lumsden has coached with the Gryphons for five seasons, and won three Grey Cups while playing for the CFL\u2019s Edmonton Eskimos. But he says playing football was nothing like the experience of competing on the reality show, which saw the team paragliding in Santiago, Chile, performing the tango in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and diving for lobsters in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very unique, and the only thing you can expect is the unexpected,\u201d says Lumsden of the race.<\/p>\n<p>The duo was the sixth team eliminated after taking a two-hour penalty on a mentally challenging flight schedule test that involved matching time zones and flight durations to create a 25-hour itinerary. The senior Lumsden then struggled on a trampoline challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great experience,\u201d he says. \u201cYou take the whole race and roll it up into one memory that you will look back on and be glad that you were a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 62 years old, Neil Lumsden was the oldest competitor on the most recent edition of The Amazing Race Canada, which aired over the summer. 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