Very hot. So much for "you'll need that long sleeve skinsuit". The heat was also radiating up off the pain pit, otherwise knows as the beach. That was the best place to watch the good (technique) the bad (technique) and the ugly (pain faces). 
I saw the smooth bike-shouldering technique, the push-and-run technique, the ride-through-the-sand-on-my-mountain-bike technique, and I'm not sure if there is a "best" way to do it, but I'm pretty sure the drag-the-bike-through-the-sand technique isn't it. If I could photoshop out the face and jersey I'd post the pic.Hopefully my injuries will get better soon and I can play too.
