He was an older swimmer when I swam, at a level far above me.

Our coach would regale us with his mammoth workouts.

Mike was a flier but he swam a lot of free.

In swimming it is common to do sets where you have to go within a certain time.

A fast time back in the 70s would be to swim 100 yards while training under a minute for intervals.

We were told Mike once did 100 100s on a minute. His coach finally told him to quit.

Coach told us that when we were complaining about doing ten.