Late Sunday afternoon we got a message from Virgin Airlines telling us that our 2:40pm flight wouldn't be leaving until 4:00pm. Then at lunchtime on yesterday we got another message saying that the flight was delayed until 4:50pm. We headed to the airport to check in etc only to find that by 4:30 the plane still wasn't in Darwin. Needless to say our flight to Perth didn't leave at 4:50.
The upshot of all this delaying was that our nicely planned afternoon flight with two small children ended up being a rather late evening flight with two small children. By the time we finally landed in Perth is was 8:30, so 10:00pm Darwin time. As you can imagine the kids were exhausted. While they were tired at least they weren't hungry, but that was no thanks to Virgin. Our original flights had been carefully planned to get us back to Perth in time for Dinner. With the delays, instead of being home for Dinner we were instead in the air. Thankfully we knew this would happen so we stocked up on food for the kids to eat during the flight, but still, it was pretty annoying.
And then, after all that, not a peep to say sorry from Virgin. No, sorry for completely stuffing you around, here have a complementary beverage or anything like that. All up it was pretty poor. I usually like Virgin as an airline, but last night's efforts were very disappointing.
Still, at least we are home.
Being at home, meant that this morning I could go down and do my first coaching session for The Front Runners.
The session I took this morning was a multi-brick session done using stationary trainers.
The session is usually run my Front Runner coach Thomas Bruins, however, he is away on a training camp and so he needed a fill in. That fill in was me.
The session is a regular weekly session that the Front Runners do in Leederville. It is usually a threshold session broken up with some short run legs. This morning's threshold session was the classic 10 x 2 minutes at threshold with 1 minute spin in between, done twice. Not easy, but a good session all the same.
The session went pretty well I think. For my first session with Front Runner I was pretty happy with how it went anyway. It was really good to get to know some of the Front Runner athletes a bit more. Get to know who they are and what they are up to/looking to achieve.
One of the challenges of the session was that most of the people doing the session don't have power meters. Obviously a threshold session is fairly easy to specify if people have power meters and know their FTP, however, if they don't then you need to fall back on heart rate and Relative Perceived Effort (RPE). Getting people to work at threshold using heart rate and RPE was a little tricky, but I think I managed it. In the end I was satisfied that everybody in the session achieved the goals of the session, which I guess is the point. Hopefully the athletes felt the session achieved the goals too.
There were certainly some things I could have done a bit better in the session, but on the whole I think the session went smoothly, met its objectives and was hopefully a bit of fun. I can't wait for the next one.
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