aQuelle Midmar Mile Swim

Online entries open on the Sunday 1st August for the 38th aQuelle Midmar Mile swim that takes place at the popular Midmar Dam resort near Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu Natal, on the 12th and 13th February 2011.

There will be a total of 13 seeding events throughout the country leading up to the world class event in Howick, starting as early as October and ending three weeks prior to the world's largest open water swimming event. This also includes the Southern Sun New Year swim as far away as Cape Town.

"We will be challenging our Guinness World Record once again," said Race Director Wayne Riddin. "Although we broke it in 2010, we had not applied officially before the race, so we plan to give the swimmers something special next year with a host of new sponsors on board."

"There will be some significant changes as we target our 13 755 finishers record. The first of these will be the new swimcap colours that will depict the corporate colours of new overall sponsors, aQuelle. The second will be the new window periods available for online entries. In order to improve our organising, we are encouraging swimmers to enter early to help with our planning, something we saw working very effectively with this year's Comrades Marathon."

While the Midmar Mile focusses on the participants completing the race, there will still be the usual international flavour to the final two events. Most of the British, Hungarian and German swimmers are expected to return and will have an added programme to compete at. Besides for the 5km and 10km events on Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th February, they will be able to move onto the Redhouse River Mile and then onto the Cape Classic Mile in Cape Town on the following two weekends.

The online entries will open at a fee of R110 until 30 September before the increases start. Entrants are able to do credit card payments or EFT's and any queries can be directed to the events office on 033-341 0790 during office hours.

The official seeding events are (events may be added later):

	SEEDING EVENTS (revised 28 July)
	MIDMAR MILE 2011
	EVENT	Distances	Additional	Day	Date	Month	Venue	PROV
1	aQuelle Hazelmere Challenge	1000m	3km	Sun	24	Oct	Hazelmere Dam	KZN
2	Time Freight Heia Safari 1000 (series 1)	1000m	3km	Sun	31	Oct	Heia Safari Ranch	Gauteng
3	Spec Pumps Lake Eland 1000	1000m	3km	Sun	7	Nov	Lake Eland	KZN
4	Sunday Tribune Capital 'K' swim	1000m	3km	Sun	21	Nov	Midmar Dam	KZN
5	Time Freight Heia Safari 1000 (series 2)	1000m	3km & 5km	Sun	28	Nov	Heia Safari Ranch	Gauteng
6	aQuelle Albert Falls Swim Challenge	1000m	10km	Sun	5	Dec	Albert Falls	KZN
7	Emerald Challenge	1000m	3km	Sun	5	Dec	Vaal River	Gauteng
8	Time Freight Heia Safari 1500	1500m	3km	Thur	16	Dec	Heia Safari Ranch	Gauteng
9	aQuelle KZN Champs	1000m	5km	Sun	19	Dec	Midmar Dam	KZN
10	Southern Sun New Year Swim	1000m		Sun	2	Jan	Cape Town	WP
11	Time Freight Kovsie Aquatics Swim	1000m	10km	Sat	15	Jan	Maselspoort	FS
12	Ingrams Ekhurleni 1200m	1200m		Sun	16	Jan	Germiston Lake	Gauteng
13	Time Freight Lake Heritage 3/4 Mile	1200m	3km	Sun	23	Jan	Heia Safari Ranch	Gauteng