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Foolish maybe, but it's become a 'thing' that it'll be my first one, and I'm looking at 2016 not 2015 so I've plenty of time to get the other disciplines sorted. Obviously I reserve the right to change my mind over the next 2 years and do shorter things, but my mind works best when working towards a goal, and the bigger the goal the more likely I am to achieve it.
Ironically it's swimming that's probably going to be my strongest part, I had years of coaching when young so I hope it won't be too much work to get back to good technique and form. I'm an average cyclist (speed wise) but maintaining it for long distance isn't a problem, so no <5h TT. It's running that's the big unknown for me, I only did my first 10k (in 20 years) the other day.
For the first bits I'll be looking at something like:-
= 9.5h (so an hour inside cutoff)
The above leaves 7.5h to do the marathon. If I were training now for just running a marathon then I'd be aiming for 3:45 or so, so a 5h marathon at the end of an IM (for 14.5h total) would do me but the buffer is there if required.
(Those are rough finger-in-the-air timings, probably take a bit off the swim and add it to the run. I may find that with training I'm faster than I expect by the time)
I don't have aspirations to go faster and I don't think I'd ever be able to get down to 12h without seriously affecting family life.