Only slow people say "PR" instead of "PB"

Athletics World Cup 800m 2018. Using Season's Best and Personal Best.

World Championships 100m 1995. Again listing Personal Best.

Never seen a European broadcast listing Pr's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LP3A7_sLeg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HWzIPRRJb0

Ok

But do ONLY slow people say PR?

I think most fast people actually say PR.

I’m surprised no one else has mentioned it, but in Canada it’s always been PB. I started running in the late ‘60s and didn’t come across PR until one of the American magazines mentioned it in the early ‘80s. It took me a moment to figure out what it meant and has always felt a bit pretentious to me.

...it's gotta be PB. Otherwise, PBJ. Mmmm! Do they eat PB in PR, as in Puerto Rico?

SDSU Aztec wrote

If you actually say the words, "personal best" sounds better than "personal record", but regardless, that was one crappy movie. Wasn't there a scene of Kenny Moore taking a leak?

Exactly. I like to say "personal best" when pronouncing the whole phrase, but if just initials, I like "PR".

After weeks of blood, sweat and tears I set my 5k PR last fall and I got the medal to prove it!

I hope to improve my PR to 10k by the end of the year!

If only "slow" times are pr's, at what point are they fast enough to be called a pb? I'm betting the OP should be calling his best times pr's, not pb's.

the better acronym is PR, but Personal Best sounds better than Personal Record when you say the whole thing

Mentally Slow People or Physically Slow?