Real athletic performance is not a flat noisy line — it has structure. The framework here splits six months of history into base building (steady improvement, ±200ms variance), build (plateau, ±300ms), and taper (one rest week, then a PB). Each phase has different variance, improvement slope, and event likelihood. The taper phase alone creates the 5% drop that distinguishes a real PB from noise.
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