Love this…
Pedders Way Ultra (January 2016)
Thought I’d post a memory here – my first Ultra distance run – Pedders Way Ultra (48 miles), excellently organised by Positive Steps. I felt so crap after 30 miles that I really thought I’d have to pack it in. Walk breaks and fab support by @juliayelloly kept me going though – 35 ex 130 runners, not too shabby for my first ultra, in 8:49:27! Good support from @Stevedred too, although he should have been effin’ running the damn thing as it was his idea for all of us to enter originally…
Fellow Tri-Anglian Vince Butler (@ironcockney) did stupendous, pushing through to 21st place in 8:24:40 for his first Ultra too, despite being a REALLY grumpy bastard at half-way…
New App – Bird Atlas Mapstore
I’ve long wanted to have the Bird Atlas 2007-11 maps available on my phone, when out in the field – and now I can (thanks to the BTO for letting me develop and deploy this through their channels, published 18/01/2016). It’s all offline, optimised to 100Mb space and contains maps not published in the book too. See details here
It uses an ExpandableListView and ListAdapter to open up available maps for each species, which then leads to an ExtendedViewPager and TouchImageView combination from Mike Ortiz, which makes the maps pinch zoomable with sensible constraints and actions. The ViewPager loads up to the max four maps at a time per species.
The user can also switch between BOU and Alphabetic species orders, and between the maps published in the book or all available species.