Tri / Triathlon / Triathlons - do they float your boat?

I participated in my first Triathlon yesterday. It was an interesting experience and was a lot of fun.

My performance wasn't brilliant, but to be expected for my first. A few things I fucked up on:

• I spent *ages *in T1 - For some reason I decided to wear a tight long-sleeve base layer as it was cold and wet, but had neglected to prepare it in advance so was an absolute ball-ache to put on.
  
• Once I was on the road, after about about 500m I remembered I hadn't attached my saddlebag, so I had to turn back, adding another km to the ride.
  
• T2 went well but I started the run way too fast (at about 3:40min/km) and got a bad stitch, resulting in a 52min T2 + 10km....