He was breathing like he'd just run his fastest mile.

This also was the fastest mile by an American in three years.

Years later, approaching the age of 50, he trained to swim the fastest middle-aged mile, and wrote another absorbing book about it.

But she ran assertively enough to produce the fastest indoor mile by a woman in three years.

It was also the fastest mile run this year.

Her fastest mile is 5 minutes 2 seconds.

It is still the second fastest indoor mile of all time and is still, 28 years on, a European record.

He hopes to run the world's fastest mile, around Stonehenge, with a full milk bottle balanced on his chin.

Then it's on to the Utah salt flats for another fastest mile, cartwheeling.

He succeeded on strength and grit because his fastest mile was 4:16.08.