I think it's too soon for you to decide. Wait until you're back on the bike feeling good, or you're in the pool hammering laps. Then you'll be able to decide. Put the Cervello on the trainer and watch the video of Kona. Don't tell me you didn't record it, I've recorded every one and every Tour de France since the 80's. See what that does for you. That said, I'm done with triathlon. As a good runner who rode my road bike to get around the beach in Florida, I did my first one in 82 or 83; a Bud Light Sprint Series race in Hollywood, Fl. I had a pretty good race for someone who really couldn't swim, but I was a runner didn't want to waste time swimming. In the 90's I was racing duathlons. As a pretty good runner, du's were great races. 98; I started to swim and did some sprints and when I heard about IMUSA in Lake Placid I signed right up for the first one in '99. I spent the next year learning how to train like a triathlete. I made the move into ultra-running in 2000 but now I loved triathlon. Raced long course until the injuries started to pile up, then I raced short course until three years ago when the hip doctor at HSS told me I had to stop running because of the arthritis in my right hip. That was August, in November I did my first middle distance mountain bike race; The 6 Hours of Cathedral Pines on Long Island. Man was that hard! Man was that cool! I think I found my place. After two years of racing successfully at that race, last year I was in NYU Hospital for Joint disease getting new hips on the day of that race. I'll be back this year and I'll have another good race! Next week I can start to run again. I want to be a good runner again. I want to try to be the best short distance over 60 runner in New York. I want to do Xterra. Xterra still has the feel the triathlon had in the past that seems to be lost now. Xterra's are hard, Xterra's are cool. For me, since the corporate takeover of triathlon by the WTC, I no longer think of triathlon as cool. But give yourself a chance to recover more before you make the decision. Then look around. There are lots of great outlets out there for the needy endurance athlete.