Help Me Choose September!

I voted for another sprint tri, since I see the two Olympics the previous two months it would be good to give a little longer recovery to start building towards that 1/2 marathon you have listed for November.  It will let you work on your transitioning some more while not having to do the distance and recovery like the past 2 months with the Olympics.

The Aquabike would be good, but at that point I'd struggle within myself whether to just go for the full HIM that day too since you'll have already done the swim and bike distances of a HIM.

I'd think the training benefits of stepping it down to the sprint to give you more experience and not having it need as much recovery as something longer would go a long way towards letting you train harder during the other days that month.

Just my two cents for course.  If you do the aquabike though let me know, I'll be there that day doing the HIM.  It would be nice to meet fellow BTers.

I did the race last year (8 hour, on a team) and it was a lot of fun.  It's hard though to go all out on your segments and then rest for 30-60 minutes.  I'd join you but I'm injured, but I bet if you started a thread about getting a team together, you'd get some interest.

I could be easily talked into doing the Newton, I discovered it back in January and kind of wished I was able to get into shape to do the 24 by myself.  I'd be willing to commit to a team that was looking to do it for fun and as a training tool.  Having had done my first HIM on the 12th, I might still be recovering a little.