The date issue

Thanks for all the positive comments!

There is however the date issue..

“The Roode 1000 Committee is very concerned about the effect of another swim on the same day (in this case the Heritage Swim on the West Rand).
We however feel that the Roode has been on the calender for the past 11 years and that our swim should have preference when decisions are made about the open water swimming calender. Although the two swims are not in the same city, both are harmed by this clash of dates.

To illustrate this point:
Dates of the past couple of Roode events are :
20 January 2002
19 January 2003
18 January 2004
23 January 2005
22 January 2006
21 January 2007
20 January 2008

Before the 2002 swim, the Roode was held in November but forfeited that date to SSA for the first Swim Challenge in 2001.
So we have held our swim on the same weekend since 2002 and shouldn’t be expected to again move to a new date.
We will urgently (again) take this up with SSA and our main sponsor Telkom.”

We anticipate rectifying the abnormal situation regarding conflicting dates.