Looking for someone who is knowledgeable about CrossFit training for triathlon

There's a guy here on BT, Max, goes by mwunderle.

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It's hard to believe how much is written in between those dots!

You're probably already aware of this, but have you looked at http://www.crossfitendurance.com/ ?

Dude, it all depends how you define "finish an Ironman." If you mean, roast and eat Macca in 12 hours, the guy from Man Vs Food might give it a shot with no training. If you mean finish an ironman-shaped-cake, I can do it in 6 hours now.

post of the week!

Yep, I sure did ... two years ago.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but what it sounds like your'e saying is that you can replace the TIME spent in the pool with TIME spent doing dryland exercises to get faster at the swim.  Is TIME spent 1:1 or are you suggesting that you can spend less time all around training and still get faster?  The reason I ask is:

1.  If it's a 1:1 ratio people will not actually save any time.

2.  Isn't the swim mostly about positioning, balance and connection with water?  How do you achieve this with dryland exercises?

3.  Speed is different from endurance.  Are you you suggesting that you can improve endurance as well with overall less training?

Sincere questions from a newb.  

That is debatable. I live 20 miles from my YMCA lap pool. I have to factor a lot of travel time in my pool workouts. Even open water is a solid drive for me, and not really even legal.

Good points.  I'm not saying that speed and endurance are separate.  Far from it.  But my understanding is that they are trained slightly differently.  There is how far you can swim, how fast you can swim and how far you can go fast.  Right?  I'm no expert, so perhaps others with more experience can help out on this one.  

As far as limited access to pools and long drive times I can see where the desire for some program could be useful, better than nothing so to speak.  My question still remains; how can it be better than specific swim training?