Interview ‘The Amazing Race Canada’ season 10 Winners Katie and Taylor

Katie and Taylor, the winners of season 10 of “The Amazing Race Canada,” shared their winning moments and journey during an interview with “The Extra Mile”

TEM (The Extra Mile): Welcome back Katie and Taylor. Last week, I was speaking to you both as a finalist contestant. And now you guys are the winners of season 10 of Amazing Race Canada. And I think both of you have been on quite a journey from almost being eliminated to winning in your own hometown. So, you know, that you’ve had a little bit of time to kind of let it sink in, how has the reality of your victory like really hit you?

Taylor: Still hasn’t sunk in. It’s so surreal to us, we’re over the moon, our friends’ family, they’re all over the moon, like we still can’t believe it actually happened. And I don’t know if we ever will.

Katie: It’s just the amount of support that we have, not just from friends and families, just the country. Yes, people all across Canada. And it’s just unbelievable. can’t stop smiling.

TEM : How tough was it to keep it a secret?

Taylor: It wasn’t really that hard, honestly, We wanted our family and friends to go through our experience the exact same way we did. We wanted to take them through the ups, through the downs, through the in-betweens. So, really, it just was as easy as saying, stay tuned, stay tuned.

Katie : One more week, know, like, stay tuned next week, tune in on Tuesday. So, I think it made it easy for us to do that. And, you know, as much as our family, they ask us, tell us, tell us, they don’t really want to know. You know, they want to be on the edge of their seat. want to be excited. eager to see each episode as they come.

TEM: What was kind of going through your guys’s mind when you guys realized you were in the lead? Were there any moments that you thought the wind might slip away? Because I feel like everyone was so neck and neck, especially at the end with the, we’re like the twins even caught up to the, the puzzle memory challenge.

Katie:  I think honestly, we really tried to focus and you know what, this run our own race, know, as much as your, their other teams are there, you, you can’t give all your attention to them. Otherwise, you’re not going to be fully present in what you’re doing. So we really just tried to, you know what, this is the last time we’re going to be able to run this race, you know, so let’s leave it all out there and leave it all on the mat and see where it takes us.

Taylor: Yeah, the thing is too is like, we didn’t even know we were in the lead. Like we were leaving that museum thinking we were in. Second or even further behind so we had no idea even coming down the stairs Like it was complete and utter shock. You see on our faces. We just couldn’t believe it was Katie Not believe it Yeah, no, I mean we can definitely see it in all the emotions Um, especially at the end.

TEM : Winning the race is a huge accomplishment. What do you what have you learned kind of as you’re about yourselves as individuals or just as a team kind of throughout this whole experience?

Taylor: Oh my gosh I mean as a team throughout this cool experience. We realized like we knew we were gonna be able to work well together But we didn’t realize how well we were gonna be like honestly Honestly, it was just so amazing getting to see our communication and how we constantly supported each other no matter what was happening. And we were constantly uplifting, cheering each other on, it just the amount of love and support that we showed one another throughout this entire race really goes to show like who we are as people and like who we are together as best friends. And like, I think it was just seen that friendship grow and us become like way stronger competitors after almost elimination, you know, it was phenomenal to see that.

TEM: And at the end of kind of when you guys actually won, said, you guys, your mantra Strong is Beautiful.  How do you hope your win will kind of inspire others, especially young female athletes watching at home?

Katie:  I did right, especially because we are the second all female team to win the amazing race Canada, and that’s a big deal. And we really want to prove to girls and girls in sports, you know, that you can do anything you set your mind to, that you know what, especially us in a male-dominated sport. That you know what the sky is the limit you know anything is possible and we want to be those bro models we we want to be something people look up to and I really think we we were genuine selves and we did that through our journey on the race.

TEM: Winning the Amazing Race Canada must you know open your doors for you guys what’s kind of next for you whether that be in a professional or personally now that you kind of both completed the Amazing Race Canada ?

Taylor: A lot of people keep asking that as that you know it’s it’s a big question um but you know we keep saying you know this is a step in you know whatever is going to set us up for the rest of our life and you know I’ve been working with an indigenous non-profits organization for the last few years and I’ve been working really closely on this one program so I’m really hoping to kind of like split that program off from the organization and create its own nonprofit or or business or whatever to basically get more support into rural Indigenous communities or work with them to make it happen even quicker, you know? So that’s kind of what I’m thinking looks next for me at least, but yeah.

Katie : And I definitely think, you know, just for both of us, it’s like this is a huge step like in our lives, like what an incredible journey and just to have, you know, it’s a good chunk of change, you know, like that can make a huge difference in our lives. You know, we’re both recent graduates, you know, we both, Taylor’s just about done her master’s and we’re just getting going on life, you know, I feel like we’re still young and we got a lot ahead of us and just having completed this and being the winners, it’s unbelievable and I just cannot wait to see where it takes us.

TEM: After traveling across Canada and just kind of experiencing this whole journey together, what would you say is like the one thing from the race that will kind of always like a fond memory that’ll kind of always stick with you or like anything specific ?

Katie: Honestly, maybe this might not be very specific, but I’d say in general like just how much I appreciate our country, you know, it is beautiful and we have all these beautiful places in our own backyard, you know, and everybody feels like they have to go outside of Canada to see something grand, something beautiful, but we have so many places that, you know, some that we might have been to that I could not believe like, you know, I’m so grateful where this journey has taken us in the places we got to see and the things we got to do that never done before. So it was just honestly a breathtaking adventure.

Taylor: Yeah, I think for me, it was like, you know, again, nothing specific, like everything on the race was phenomenal and such a unique experience, but I think for us, you know, we really tried to be present and enjoy every single moment and, you know, live every moment within the race like it was in the last day and even up until when we almost got eliminated like we were still racing regardless of what was going on. We were like, it’s not over till you see John with the mat and he tells you that you’re done so I think for us it was just being present and laughing smiling having fun throughout the race and having literally no regrets or any stones unturned.

Check out the rest of our interviews with The Amazing Race Canada season 10 contestants here