A keen group of swimmers will attempt a 10-kilometre swim to start their Sunday morning while most people are looking for tea and toast.
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The Warrnambool Masters Swimming Club will hold a 100x100 event on March 3, where swimmers challenge themselves to complete 100 laps of 100 metres.
Former Warrnambool teacher Noel Ryan, 80, is taking on the test of swimming the 10 kilometres after being nominated for the event by another club member.
"We were sitting having a coffee and he was fiddling on his phone," Mr Ryan said.
"Then he turned to me and said 'you owe me $30', he had just entered me in the 100x100s."
Mr Ryan said it wasn't the first time he had been entered into events, but he had always risen to the challenge and completed the distances.
"I don't think distances are quite the problem, it's the speed you do them at," he said.
"I'm determined to finish the damn thing."
Club captain and event organiser Laura Tweddle said the swimmers would break the event down into blocks of 10 or 20 laps.
"When people enter they will nominate the times they want to swim on," Ms Tweddle said.
"Think of it like a beep test in the pool, if you get back quickly you get more rest."
Swimmer Tanya Suggett said the club was looking for new ways to give members a challenge they could work towards and provide them with a good social opportunity.
"It's a personal challenge, your only swimming against yourself," she said.
"You select your distance and select your time and you try to beat that."
Mrs Suggett said she was aiming to swim laps starting every two minutes 15 seconds.
"We did a practice this morning (swimming) 10 laps on the 2.15, that was OK but multiplying it by 10 might be a different story," she said.
"It beats coming down to the pool and swimming along the black line every day."
The club is hoping to have 30 swimmers take up the challenge as this will allow it to purchase a new laptop to use on the pool deck and to make a donation to Archie Graham Community Centre.