DNFs are never the plan going into a race. However, at the professional level I have found that sometimes you have to make decisions based on the big picture and approach racing as a business. This race was a business decision, and a bit of risk. I had a feeling it would go really well or it would go really badly. Just coming off of Japan 70.3, and a long journey back from Japan, it wasn't the brightest idea to try and line up again at Staffordshire. I rationalized doing this