what would you do?

Tell you what everyone else has told me with my crazy questions... Do it!! Although I am doing my first sprint after only a few weeks of training and not doing a HIM but what the hell why not right!?!?!

You have a strong base from the rest of the season/past years right? If you are worried I would go out, and do it as a pure "fun race" by which I mean do it not to place or even to push yourself. Cruise on the swim, maybe stop and chat with a kayaker for a second just because. Take the bike light and thank all the volunteers you can. If it is a scenic course even take your camera with you in order to stop and snap a few photos? then have a fun run as well. You wont finish first, probably not even FOP but you could still get the race in, have fun, and maybe, just maybe, make a volunteers day by being so nice 

I tried that last season and while my fitness was probably lower than yours for different health issues still I went for it and had a solid race but far from good. I did adjusted my expectations heading inot the race but due to my competitive nature I struggled through the race enjoying myself 100% because for me it is fun when I am pushing as hard as I can, with a low fitness level that was just not possible. I ended up dissapointed to close the season on a low note and that kinda killed my motivation for a while.

Looking back I think I would have rather done it as a relay for fun...

haha since we are all athletes here:

the health issue was not really training preventing on its own, i hit a rather large bump a few weeks back, jacked my seat into my groin and somehow managed to cut my leg right where it meets my groin, got infected, all that fun. so i had the mother of all saddle sores for a few weeks.

running went well, swimming is acceptable.

biking has been close ot nil this month.

i feel right now, i could have an acceptable swim, slowish bike, and prob PR the run by another few min.

right now i am leaning towards racing and seeing where the swim falls, backing off the bike to the lwoer end of my tempo zone, and then trying to clobber the run. i am still sorting out nutrition/pacing on longer events and while the times might not be amazing it would still be practice with that.

mentally i am still wanting to race, just sick of full time training for a bit. so unless some fast people are free that weekend, right now i think i will go for it, and it will be fun to race with my dad during his first half!

Find a fast friend to bike and you swim and run.

Ouch I don't think with what you have going on biking would be fun at any effort level for 56 miles.

For that reason alone, I'd do it, no doubt.

its completely healed now, hence the amount of time off the bike.

i think i am going to head out for a long ride either fri or sun and see how things feel. if its ok, i'll do it, and actually race it, if its harder than it should be to hold a reasonable level i am going to go race completely for fun.