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ARTICLE END OF YEAR REVIEWMICHALE SARTORIUSGoal accomplished.Goal 3 - Despite having the unusual training routineof largely running only 3 miles and havingabsolutely no rest days I was able to set a newmarathon PB at Brighton but also qualifying forBoston and London marathons for 2013. PBs werealso set at 5k, 10k, half marathon and 50 miles. Goalcompleted.Goal 4 - My first 100 miler was completed in justover 23:30 in June at the Centurion South DownsWay 100 in June (with more than a little help fromHelen, Rob, George and my crew).It's pretty easy to see why 2012 has been my bestyear of running ever.PETER COMPLETING THE GUCRPHOTOGRAPH | ROSS LANGTONWhat are your (running) goals for 2013?Goal 1 - reach 500 days of consecutive running inearly March.Goal 2 - Set a new 100 mile PB (weather/floodingpermitting) at the Centurion Thames Path 100.What were your (running) highlights of 2012?I had set myself 4 main running goals for 2012, butthese were more hopes/expectations rather thantargets. These were to complete one year of runningevery day, run a marathon every month, improvemy marathon PB and the small matter ofcompleting my maiden 100 mile foot race.Goal 1 - I had started running a minimum of 3 mileson consecutive days from the end of October 2011,so I entered 2012 a mere 62 of 366 (it would be aleap year!) done. Despite some time managementissues, interesting weather and generally tired legs(especially on the days after marathons and ultras) Imanaged complete the year and then the whole of2012 running everyday. Goal accomplished.Obviously the race I'm most looking forward to in2013 is the Boston Marathon. But I'm alreadybooked in for the Thames Trot 50, TP100, LondonMarathon, sweeping the courses of the CenturionNorth Downs Way 50 (in May) and 100 (in August).I'll probably be seen at the Country to Capital 45(Jan), crewing the SDW100 (June), at the VOTWOSouth Downs Challenge (June), at the XTRG ToadChallenge (Sept) and the Bacchus (wine tastingincluded) Marathon (Sept). Also tentatively thinkingabout doing either the Thames Challenge (the 180+miles taking in the entire length Thames) or theThames Ring 250 - assuming I can convince myselfthat I have a good chance of finishing.Goal 2 - Although I didn't run a marathon in everysingle month I did still manage to bash out 15marathon+ finishes of which 8 were ultras. To putthis in context since I had run my maiden marathonat NYC in 1998 I had only managed to chalk up 16marathon and 2 ultras in the following 12 years.10 ULTRA TALES | JANUARY 2013Sponsored by thehttp://