Well by this stage we are deep into the Silly Season... I trust you all are well rested and enjoying the fabulous Cape Town weather... The other day I was chatting with a friend who was telling me of a friend that is a triathlete that was planning to do this "Crazy" New Year's Day Swim at Clifton... Is that not the Clifton Cold Water Mile I fished... Yeah something like that...

Well the Clifton Cold Water Mile has been a part of my life for quite some time - when I joined Clifton SLSC back in ...
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What a year! ... 2010 saw 1SOMS exceeding the 100 swimmer count on 3 occasions.. Open water swimming in the Cape continues to grow..

The roots of 1SOMS is the Clifton Cold Water Mile of 2006 ...The Annual New Years Day Swim fell on a Sunday.. It seems a fortune of time ago... the original 5 still are participants..albeit almost as a tag team..I have not done the analysis but suspect that at least 1 of the 5 are at each swim..

The Clifton Cold Water Mile 2011 is this Saturday.. Registration is f...
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Yes its that time of the month - this Sunday is the 1st Sunday and Clifton is the venue... For those who wand to keep track of other swims take a look at Swimmersguide (http://www.swimmersguide.co.za/Newsletter/default.htm)

The current forecast for Sunday looks promising...

Swell Wind 1.9m 11secs 14kph
Swell Components	Breaking Wave Estima...

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