St. Petersburg, Florida -- After 35,00 miles, five continents, eight countries and the longest blind date ever, Hayley Keel is back home in St. Pete.
"I've been on blind dates and I've been able to leave if I didn't like it and this I was in it for the long haul," she said at Ferg's during a watch party with hundreds of fans of the "The Amazing Race."
Hayley, a nurse at All Children's Hospital, was paired with Blair Townsend, a Navy doctor, who she had never met until they got to the starting line in the show.
"It was worth every second of it," she said. "Good, bad, it was tiring. It was so hard some days, but we made it through and we made It to the last leg which was our ultimate goal."
While the team prescription for love – had enough chemistry to go the distance – they didn't find love or win the race and its $1 million prize.
Still fans cheered as a hometown girl crossed the finish line.
"May the best team win. We had our mistakes, but made it to the final three as a blind date. That's more than we ever could have imagined for ourselves," she said.
Hayley says she has no regrets and she tells me she would absolutely do the amazing race again.
