Swimming in enterococcus

Although we've had a bit of a dry spell recently the good news is that Falls lake is pretty much full. Isn't this great! Now we're able to do the open water swim workout we used to do before Falls had almost dried up last year. Sort of hard to swim in that mud... So whoohooo, right?

But wait there's more!

So Friday I do my first open water swim workout, (at our secret location), in like over a year. It felt pretty good. Until of course I find out that the "legal" swimming areas at Falls lake have tested positive for; "enterococcus, a bacteria normally found in the feces of humans and many animals". Holy shit! Are you serious? I've been swimming in shit?

After hearing this wonderful news I had this immediate need to take another shower....with iodine...or alcohol wipes...or something, yuck!

I think this is a classic example of not being able to "have your cake and eat it to". We have to choose. Do we want to have the option of doing an open water swim, or do we want to have a full lake? You see you just can't have both. If the lake is full...we'll you swim in shit. If the lake is low or empty, you can't swim...BUT, you don't swim in shit! Ahhh, see now your getting it...

Now one last thought! Falls Lake Reservoir is where we get out drinking water from. Ummm good ole H2O!