Frodo might just "out Macca" Macca, not by any sly fox tricks at Kona itself, but by virtue of everything he did this year and the fact he can just attack all legs or play poker all he wants on any leg. All his key rivals have weaknesses at some point.

• You want to swim with Frodo...good luck...him and Josh Amberger will lift the Kona swim pace to jettison Sanders-Kienle-Wurf and crew as early as possible. Everyone knows this is going to happen and everyone is waiting for that bomb to drop. He can attack on the swim and will to put his competition at a disadvantage.
• Onto the bike, everyone is waiting for the Uberbiker train, but Frodo will be charging with his own Uberbiker train. Amberger is no slouch and they should have Starky to work with very soon. Frodo will be highly motivated to jettison Gomez and Lange as early as possible if the swim pace calms and others are able to get to T2 with him. And he has strong bikers to do it with. Everyone knows that Frodo will not want to let Gomez hang around pushing less watts than he needs to. Frodo and Brownlee and Kanute were able to hammer at the front at 70.3 Worlds. it seemed like Gomez was hanging on the ropes. Frodo's going to want to soften Gomez early and make sure that the Wurf-Sanders-Kienle train is as fried as possible by T2. He just needs this train to be fried enough that Sebi nor Sander can do a decent run. He's going to also want the pace of their train to be fast enough that they can't tow Gomez and Lange anywhere close. If Frodo wants to play the uberbiker game he can do like Oceanside. If he wants to play the uber runner game he can do like Frankfurt. If he wants to soften up the competition he can just ride surgy and put the faster runners in the red zone without going into that zone himself
• Onto the run, Frodo can jog if his entry to T2 is early enough and win. If he soft pedals then he can put the run hammer down like Frankfurt

He's looking unbeatable in all three sports. Barring a flat or other mechanical, the fact that he can attack on every leg or just sit in and play everyone's games gives him every card to play. He can be like Geriant Thomas at the TdF and just mark everyone, and just burn a few matches at the most opportune times only....otherwise he can just stay low octane, and save the jet fuel for speficic times. Others don't have that luxury...they have to play their stengths and minimize weaknesses....Frodo is as strong as everyone on each leg and has zero weakness.

They better hope that Frodo who pulled off two uber runs in 2 months just used up his 2 high octane run sessions for the season and used his last one today before Kona rather than at Kona. But this guy is so strong he does not need an A+ run to win Kona.

But there is Lange. That guy did not run a quad shedding run at Frankfurt. If he is close enough and Frodo used his last A+ run today, then its not over till its over. We did not see a fast run YET from Lange this year.