London 2012 at 5cm resolution

I had such a cool afternoon playing with some of the latest image mapping available in Europe. BLOM are a company that my company are exploring as a data provider. Hence, they have sent us some sample datasets and an online web portal to check out what they have. BLOM  are the people behind the oblique and birds eye views on bing maps.

I obviously can't show any of the stuff they have sent but to give you a flavour of what they are doing, here is a picture of the Olympic Stadium (pre-track being laid). The actual image is to a 5cm resolution and was taken using a c.196 megapixel camera (a normal camera has about 10 megapixels!). So this is basically a bit like google earth but much cooler and much more detailed. Very exciting!

My Achilles Heel

People often say that the hardest part is admiting it - well I am ready: "I am injured". Phew, with that over I can plough on with rehab (ice, ice, rest, ice, stretch, ice, massage, ice, ice, and jog!!) 

The story follows: I had an "end of season" tight achilies which I attributed to lots of hurdling. So I took a break. Then I resumed "jogging" on holiday where my tight achillies persisted and here I justified it as "dehydration and wearing flip flops". I returned from holidays and embarked on winter training during which my poor achillies gradually got worse and worse and the "start of winter training" excuse eventually fell flat. A full week off (that coincided with lots of biking during the late Sept heatwave) and I set off on my 3 mile jog return....ouch, back to square one. Then, I did what every runner knows they shouldn't but always does, I raced. Not good. Whilst my warm up was fine (a dull ache) racing over cross-country in spikes tested it a bit too much and left it feeling very vulnerable and sensitive.

Time to take some days off and get it fixed properly before resuming running! Booo hoo!