There is more wisdom in the posts on this site than the entire season of the LC's speeches and exercises.

You are so right, MizJ.: "wrong, manipulative, and exploitive". That sums up this 5K.

It starts with an exercise for Christie. Christie is obviously way over her head, so they add Jodi. That isn't enough because Jodi, who could probably handle this thing start to finish, won't do Christie's job. So they add Sommer to the mix. That isn't enough, so Christie meets with a "mentor". She gets a nice pep talk, and the option of asking the highly successful, wild-haired blonde lady to be her own personal mentor. That still isn't enough, so, at the eleventh hour, the rest of the housemates are pulled into the 5K. They are all working on their own goals - but presumably, their goals are put on hold because the 5K is more important. They are also given a solemn warning: the success or failure of the 5K is on their heads...collectively and individually.

I do not think the poster who questioned Christie's mental abilities was being facetious. She may be more on target than we know. It is entirely possible that Christie suffers from residual brain damage from her years of drug and alcohol abuse.

I'm amazed that Christie, a low functioning individual, moves with such ease from her soapbox of whining to her high horse of blaming (but toddlers can do that too). How dare Christie question that validity of Niambi's pain or discomfort? Isn't anyone going to quote the "no expectation on other people" SO mantra on this one?

Christie may have been an abysmal model, but at least the reputations of other people weren't riding on the success or failure of that pipedream. Although we all know that SO will pull this 5K out of the bag, I sincerely hope that someone in authority pulls Christie aside and tells her, in no uncertain terms, that the success of the race was in spite of Christie, not because of her.