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> I went from a 12 minute mile to a sub-7 minute mile in 3 years

A 5 minute difference. Which is amazing. But only to other runners.

Going from a 50kg (110lbs) squat to a 130kg squat (286lbs) in 3 years is almost trivially doable (I've once gone from 50kg to 100kg in 3 months) and is impressive to everyone.

As much as we'd like our motivations to be pure, we really really really like impressing our friends.



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