PBs (personal bests) used to be things that were talked about rarely as that was the frequency that they were attempted to be set/broken. They were sacred. They were the highlight of one’s season, in some cases, one’s life. Like many things, they are a drug, a natural high, and in the era of closer data tracking and more data points across all sports, the focus has wrongly been tied in many cases singularly to ones PB as the measure of success. It’s paralyzing many but we are addicted, and when we see ourselves moving further away from our