I’d pre-booked an Uber for 07:45 to get us to London Heathrow Terminal 3. Our intended arrival time being during rush hour meant that giving ourselves the best part of an hour to get there would be a good idea. I did notice the app suggested we’d need to be at the airport three hours before, it seemingly not able to distinguish that this was a short haul flight that only requires two hours.

The bag drop and security was easy enough, and this left us with time to find somewhere to buy some lunch for later. A Boots meal deal seemed like the best option there, and once ready we waited for our flight.

The flight to Prague is only two hours, which meant we’d got most of the afternoon. When booking accommodation and flights, we'd forgotten that for this race series, Prague is the odd one out with the event taking place on the Saturday. This meant we'd got until 20:00 to not just arrive and check-in to the AirBNB, but to also get to the Expo for our number collection. Any big delays in the flight could be catastrophic.

Unlike many European cities, there’s no train or metro link from the airport to the city. This leaves you with three options: taxi, airport shuttle, or a regular bus. A month ago, the shuttle put their prices up, which means in some circumstances it’s now cheaper to take a taxi than the shuttle; but we’d already planned on taking the bus. We could take the 59 bus to Nádraží Veleslavín, and from there switch to the underground as far as Staroměstská in Prague 1.

It was then only a short walk from the metro stop to the AirBNB where we could meet our host, and pay the 50 CZK pp/pd tourist tax in cash. We quickly got sorted, and then headed out to catch the number 17 tram to Výstaviště, and from there we walked to the Křižíkovy pavilony to collect our race numbers.

We took our time looking around, so we could get our SuperHalf passport stamped, and get the now traditional photo with our race number for tomorrow. Eventually, we headed back to the AirBNB via a supermarket to get some pasta and supplies for this evening.