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WHO: CrossFit athlete Dani Speegle.WHAT: Log lifts that would have impressed Paul Bunyan at the 2022 Rogue Invitational.WHY IT’S SO GREAT: Speegle made her mark last weekend at the annual CrossFit competition in Round Rock. After she’d already won the Texas Oak log-lift event by hoisting a 205-pound modified tree trunk over her head, the fitness influencer from San Diego decided to loft a heavier, 215-pound log, just for the heck of it.As she prepared for her final lift, thousands of fans cheered from the stands. One young boy in the front row waved a neon-pink sign decorated with a handwritten “MY FAV DANI.” She was confident she could deliver. “An athlete can always tell when they’re getting close to a weight they might fail,”…

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