Small Tear Creates a Small Separation

We've got good news and bad news.

Bad news first:
Today, Bud woke up with a little strain in his right quad. He thought that it was a small strain, maybe from a weird night's sleep or the past 15 mile run on Sunday. It comes with the desire of becoming Iron; No problem. Later that day, after Bud got off the phone with Kurt about meeting up for a mile swim/4-mile run combo at the gym, Bud felt a sharper strain in the same area of his quad. He quickly discovered a knot of muscle in his upper leg. Bummer. After a checkup with the doctor, Bud discovered that he had a small muscle tear in his leg, and the torn muscle contracted to create the knot. He was prescribed to meet with a physical therapist to figure out how long he will be out of commission and how he can recoup the quickest.

Now the good news!
The separation is only temporary. Kurt is in the pool right now absolutely tearing it apart. He is really starting to look like an otter in the water, with sweet lightning swim shorts. Bud is being taken care of by his sister, Sarah, who has a bachelor's in Exercise Science and is a massage practitioner. He will be back in the pool in no time...becoming metallic with his best pal. By the way, isn't the best medicine for a muscle tear a little Iron? :)

Since Bud has a little more time on the couch now, he found a sweet picture of Kurt from the Seattle-to-Portland Bike ride. You're Welcome.

Tubes and Heroes: Our first bike ride of 2010

After two weeks of intense training, BudandKurt were on a roll. Our swimming has drastically improved and, of course, Bud is trying his best to keep up with the incredible speed of Kurt. We had a little hiccup during our latest long day (Sunday) that ended up with Kurt’s dad coming to the rescue…

So we took off on a rainy 50 mile bike ride. It was rainy, muddy, and we were completely unprepared for the weather. About 5 miles into it, Bud’s front tire seemed to be riding lop-sided. He realized that he blew his first tube, and the tire was completely flat. Proudly, Bud whipped out his spare tube he purchased months before from his mud-covered pack under his seat. Kurt then informed Bikemaster-Bud that some important tools are needed to switch out the tubes. Budandkurt stayed there on the side of the road and tried to use their mediocre muscles to pry the tire off of the wheel, but had no success. Luckily, Kurt’s dad came to the rescue and swapped out Bud’s tire with one of his super light pro tires. Demoralized and equipped with sopping socks, BudandKurt cut their ride down to about 20 miles. We made up the work the day after by adding in an extra swim.

Kurt’s dad, the hero that he is, taught us how to change a tube when we returned. I hope all of you get the chance to meet this honorable soul; he really is one of the most interesting men in the world. He even stepped in for a pic when we wanted to re-enact the awkward moment when Bud realized that he has no clue how to work on bicycles.

You will learn more about Kurt’s handsome father as he will be featured in our first Support Profile. Support BudandKurt and you can be on our blog as our next Support Profile!

Yellow Hands and Pink Eyes

BudandKurt are in full training swing now. We train 6 days out of the week and here’s what it’s looking like right now.

Monday: Rest

Tuesday: Short run (6-10 miles)

Wednesday: Short run (6-10 miles)

Thursday: Swim 1 hour

Friday: Swim 1 hour

Saturday: Swim 1 hour

Sunday: Long run (15-20 miles) or long Bike ride (50 miles)

Then we workout 4 days out of the week mixed in there. The workout consists of a bunch of core exercises to hopefully make us look like Gerard Butler (Buddy) and Ryan Reynolds (Kurtis).

It’s going pretty well so far with a few hiccups. We ran 15 miles this last Sunday and it was tough mentally and physically. We ran from Bud’s place to past the Renton Municipal Airport and back. It took a little bit more than a couple hours and made us wonder how the heck we ever ran 26.2 miles. By the end of it Bud’s hands were yellow and Kurt’s legs were on fire. We won’t lie, there was some walking involved. We thought that Bud’s jaundice was relapsing but it turned out that some gloves he used earlier in the day had rubbed off. It’s now a couple days later and Kurt woke up this morning having to use his fingers to separate his eyelids apart. He’s had a sore throat lately but now its pretty certain he’s got pinkeye. (By this point you’re probably recalling the scene from Knocked Up… but WebMD says that it can be caused by allergies or dry eyes as well…look it up) We’re going to be focusing on staying healthy as well as getting ripped and no matter the color of our fingers or eyes we’ll be out training everyday.