Colin & Christie

Colin Guinn and Christie Lee Woods are a Dating team on and a team of Life Partners on.

Colin lived up to his self-description of being "possibly the most intense person that's ever run this race", becoming infamous both for dominating most of the race with his shrewd understanding of the game and his merciless gameplay, as well as his short temper, leading to his near arrest in Tanzania and his famous "My ox is broken!" outburst. Christie, on the other hand, was often regarded as a big load to carry. She did only one Roadblock and often only irritated Colin with her constant nagging. Ultimately, Colin's temper would be his undoing, as he lost a lot of his strategic edge after getting Yielded by Chip & Kim, eventually finishing 2nd due to a series of mistakes that left them unable to get on the same flight as Chip & Kim due to their flight being delayed and already having checked their bags.

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Retrieved from cbs.com {| Colin & Christie met in a class at the University of Texas in Austin and have been dating for over a year. Both now live in Corpus Christi, Texas. When Colin saw Christie give a presentation in their communications class, he knew that she was the one for him. It took eight months of being friends before he finally got her to go out on a date with him. Colin claims that he will ask Christie to marry him if they can get through the Race together.
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Christie is the 1996 Miss Teen USA winner, the first and only one from Texas. However, she considers her biggest accomplishment in life to be working to pay her entire way through college and graduating with honors. She describes herself and her teammate as "very competitive, extremely aggressive with strong personalities." Although Christie says that she is always late, she is also a perfectionist who hates losing.

Colin is the owner of a cell phone store. Among the accomplishments he is most proud of is getting Christie to fall in love with him, which he claims is better than being the top first-year dealer for a book publishing company in the United States. He also agrees that he and Christie are both very aggressive and "very outspoken and in-your-face." However, he is a very open person who will talk to anyone, while Christie is extremely private.

Colin & Christie are excited about competing in THE AMAZING RACE 5 because they will be able to travel the world and participate in this kind of competition. Christie adds, "Another reason for doing this Race is that it is a test to see if we are marriage potential. I know we can win, and if we do, we're getting married right after the show." Previous season:
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Colin Guinn
Age: 38

Instagram: @colinguinn

Hometown: Austin, Texas

Current occupation: Tech Entrepreneur

Describe what you do: We help companies develop/bring new technologies and innovations to market… primarily in drones, autonomous robotics, and emerging technologies.

Three words to describe you: Loving, energetic, and capable.

Favorite hobbies: Surfing, standup paddling, mountain biking, hiking, auto racing, dancing, sailing, camping, yoga, snowboarding, building, and flying drones.

What is the accomplishment you are most proud of? Co-creating a beautiful life with Christie, our two beautiful boys, Achilles and Cruz, a successful career doing what I love with people that I love, and a daily practice that allows me to maintain high vibrations.

What scares you most about traveling? Sitting in the middle seat in coach.

What excites you most about traveling? Getting to experience other cultures and people around the world and witnessing their way of life first hand… seeing how different their culture can be, while at the same time recognizing how similar we all are at the core.

What country and place would you most like to visit and why? Antarctica, because of the wildlife.

What do you hope to accomplish by running the Race with your partner (other than winning one million bucks)? Watching myself run The Amazing Race 15 years ago gave me the opportunity to look in on myself from the outside and see just how unconscious and full of ego my behavior was. Since then, I have done many years of work to broaden my perspective and come from a more loving and collaborative mindset. I hope to enter this engineered reality that is designed to bring on extreme stress and reduce resilience and apply the principles and practices that have transformed my daily life to see if they can help me have a much more harmonious experience while still being every bit as competitive as we were the first time around.

Who do you think will be your biggest competition: Racers, Houseguests, or Castaways? Racers, without a doubt. The Amazing Race is very different than the other shows in that the competitors are out in the real world having to navigate countries with different cultures and language, dealing with uncontrollable flight delays, lack of sleep, jet lag, etc. I think the people who have experienced that before, and proved to be successful in that environment, will be our biggest competition.

Christie Woods
Age: 40

Instagram: @christiewoods1

Hometown: Austin, Texas

Current occupation: Integrated Sex, Love, and Relationship Coach

Describe what you do: I use my intuitive abilities and energetic healing tools to help clients process past trauma stuck in the body often keeping them in a constant loop of mediocre relationships and life experiences. I combine traditional “top down” talk therapy with a more somatic “bottom up” approach utilizing various types of breath-work, sound healing, meditation, and Reiki in order to encourage my clients to go deep within the self to uncover and/or simply release thought patterns no longer serving their best and highest good. I invite them to reclaim their sovereignty by reconnecting with their own internal emotional guidance system; thus, becoming a more expressed human, free of cultural and familial programming, inspired to live their own authentic truth.

Three words to describe you: Adventurous, curious, and fun.

Favorite hobbies: Hiking, yoga, travel, reading, camping, wake-surfing, snowboarding, paddle boarding, slack-lining, dancing, and playing hide-and-go-seek with my kids.

What is the accomplishment you are most proud of? Raising my boys and up-leveling my relationship with Colin.

What scares you most about traveling? Losing my passport.

What excites you most about traveling? Seeing the world, and experiencing new people and different cultures.

What country and place would you most like to visit and why? Africa—the motherland! I enjoyed our visit on Season 5 very much, and would LOVE to go back!

What do you hope to accomplish by running the Race with your partner (other than winning one million bucks)? Even more intimacy, connection, fun, and… expansion!!

Who do you think will be your biggest competition: Racers, Houseguests, or Castaways? Racers for sure!!
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Trivia

 * At the Switchback in Season 25's ', Phil called Colin's behavior, at the Plow Detour ("My ox is broken!") in ', the "biggest breakdown ever" in the show's history.

Franchise Records

 * Colin and Christie are the first team to win three consecutive legs.
 * Colin and Christie are the first team to win six legs in a single season.
 * Colin and Christie are the first team to be Yielded.
 * Colin and Christie are the first team to place last on the 11th leg of the race and not be eliminated.
 * With a span of 26 seasons and 15 years, Colin & Christie hold the record for longest period between appearances on the show.

Post-Race

 * After the airing of the Race, Colin proposed to Christie on . She accepted. They currently have two sons.
 * In the post-race interviews of their original run, Colin and Christie were disappointed that their edit was skewed.
 * They were invited to participate in The Amazing Race: All-Stars but had to decline due to Christie's pregnancy with their first child.
 * Colin is now a Senior Vice President at involving drones.

Interviews

 * Ethan Alter at TV Guide Online (08/31/2004): "Colin strikes back at Mirna!"
 * Harry Smith at The Early Show (09/22/2004): "Amazing Race Ends With Proposal"
 * Ethan Alter at TV Guide Online (09/29/2004): "TAR's Colin & Christie: 'We're Nice' "
 * 3-Part Series on TARfiles
 * "He's Packing It!" (11/08/2004)
 * "My Editor Is Broken!" (11/19/2004)
 * "It's a Wonderful Race" (11/25/2004)