Also: I just watched the aquathon highlights. Next great american male-runner-turned-triathlete hope is Matt Mcelroy. All american in 10,000m 3 months ago. PR under 14 min in 5k, 28:30 10k. Just barely starting to swim full time...
There is a nice little video on flo track that google will find for you. It looks like he's training with Paulo. So, you know, same old story: if he can get his swim into the front pack he'll be beating Brownlees in no time. If not, well that is what 70.3 is for.

Agreed that it was disappointing to see such appalling conditions for the race. In all honesty I wasn't a huge fan of the course, a simply highway job on the bike, especially when compared to places like Hamburg, Stockholm, Auckland (RIP), Madrid (RIP).
From an Australian perspective it's very exciting seeing Aaron Royle's run continue to progress so well, especially after such a difficult start to the season with injuries and personal events.
Gomez said from the outset that this was a training race, clearly he has an incredible ability to back up week after week, I'd be interested to see how much training he'd be doing between races, some people work well off a heavy race schedule but only minimal training in between. In a pre-olympic year he is making some very good $$ Be interesting to see if he backs of his race schedule next year to concentrate on training, or whether he sticks to the same formula.

No not in Edmonton. Definitely not good enough- currently in Murakami for the Asian Cup here. Going to non-drafting focus after this season, if you can't swim fast there's not much point/money doing ITU beyond gaining experience.

So lets recap what Gomez has done in the past month....

Raced Stockholm, wins. Goes to Austria "casually" races a 70.3 world championship of illness gets third. Fly's across the pond to the far north western end of North America and gets 2nd at Edmonton. Then 2 weeks later gets 2nd in the Grand Final winning his 5th WTS all while running a 29:06 to end this past month. It's amazing to think what he has done in the past 5 weeks, the travel, training/recovery, logistics, etc to pull that off all so well. Amazing.

Was the run course short, or did Mola really run sub 29? In any case, what a run by the podium!

That is an excellent Q and hopefully someone with inside knowledge will chime in. Other observations/questions:

What happened to Jonny Brownlee, finishing 12th???
What about Hunter Kemper, DNF-ing after the bike???
And, yaaaaawn, Gwen won her 12th race in a row and 2nd World Championship in a row, which no one seems to even care about in this thread.
What happened to Sarah True, who finished 7th, and Katie Z., who finished 24th???

Discuss/speculate/hypothesize...:)