2024 goals and stretch goals

Primary goals:

⬜ Great North Run (any time) — ABANDONED
✅ Allendale Challenge < 10hrs — 6th April
⬜ Do another 10K event
✅ 2 more ranked orienteering events

Stretch goals:

⬜ Do a third 10K event
⬜ Get a full set of 6 ranked orienteering events

And after all that, there'll be a 2024 retrospective.

Or... so I wrote back when I planned to complete the year of running. As it turned out, I quit in October 2024, so here's the de facto 2024 retrospective.

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