{"id":30625,"date":"2012-05-25T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/2012\/05\/evan-morrison-no-pain-no-gain\/"},"modified":"2014-07-29T01:28:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T08:28:38","slug":"evan-morrison-no-pain-no-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/evan-morrison-no-pain-no-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Morrison, No Pain No Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA BARBARA, California.  May 25.  &#8220;HE&#039;S a fish outta water.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That comment is made frequently about good swimmers by their less aquatically-oriented friends on terra firma.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly applies to <a href=\"http:\/\/openwaterpedia.com\/index.php?title=Evan_Morrison\"target=\"_blank\">Evan Morrison<\/a>, a business data analyst from Santa Barbara, California who co-founded the <a href=\"http:\/\/openwaterpedia.com\/index.php?title=Marathon_Swimmers_Forum\"target=\"_blank\">Marathon Swimmers Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The friendly face and graduate of Princeton University has turned his life-long passion for swimming into a lifestyle&#8230;and bringing many more like him along for the ride.  Whether it is bumpy and lumpy in a rough ocean, or cool and calm in a tranquil lake, Morrison brings youthful energy and a sharp intellect to the sport where he feels so comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>And with good reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>I was born with a dislocated left hip, medically known as congenital hip dysplasia. With a timely diagnosis, this wouldn&#039;t have been a huge issue, but unfortunately the problem went unnoticed for the first 18 months of my life. By that time I had done considerable damage to the joint. I had four major hip operations by the time I was 12<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fortitude that Morrison demonstrated as a marathon swimmer in the Swim the Suck, Tampa Bay Marathon Swim, Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, Catalina Channel, and Ederle Swim was also demonstrated early in his life.  &#8220;<i>Swimming was one of the few activities where I wasn&#039;t limited by my hip. I learned to swim at the age of 3 and started competitive swimming at 7<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the road to the marathon world took an unanticipated turn.  &#8220;<i>The operation when I was 12 allowed me to live fairly normally through middle school, high school, and college.  I could not play any contact sports or do extended running, but I could get around reasonably well, and most importantly &#8211; I could swim.<\/p>\n<p>In my mid-twenties I started having increasing pain due to the deterioration of cartilage in my hip. I started off with ibuprofen, then went to increasingly massive doses, then prescription nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like Vioxx and Celebrex.  But then I couldn&#039;t take it anymore and went to the student health center at Stanford. Within a few weeks, I had a surgery scheduled at Stanford Medical Center for a total hip replacement. This happened when I was 25<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the surgery, <a href=\"http:\/\/openwaterpedia.com\/index.php?title=Evan_Morrison\"target=\"_blank\">Morrison<\/a> returned to swimming with the Stanford Masters Swim Team even before he was allowed to walk. His passion knew no boundaries.  &#8220;<i>I used my crutches to get to the edge of the deck, then sort of flopped into the pool. It was great<\/i>,&#8221; he recalled with great appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>After his road back to recovery, he stuck with the pool for another three years.  But then he discovered the open water and has never looked back.  &#8220;<i>My hip feels great. No contact sports for the rest of my life, but I&#039;m pain free and can walk, hike, and swim to my heart&#039;s content<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To a certain extent at least.  For he acknowledges and accepts the sacrifices that comes with marathon swimming.  &#8220;<i>Like any ultra-endurance sport, pain is just part of the game when you are swimming across a channel. Because pain is inevitable, the question becomes: How do we deal with it? How do we manage it? I see an interesting subtext that is actually quite common among life-long marathon swimmers: masochism or the pleasure in pain.<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For someone who had to deal with so much pain in his young life, <a href=\"http:\/\/openwaterpedia.com\/index.php?title=Evan_Morrison\"target=\"_blank\">Morrison<\/a> remains profoundly observant. &#8220;<i>Masochism is a great strategy for dealing with the pain of a marathon swim. If we embrace pain as inevitable and even &#8211; dare I say &#8211; pleasurable &#8211; then it cannot defeat us<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a special way that distance swimmers can appreciate, <a href=\"http:\/\/openwaterpedia.com\/index.php?title=Evan_Morrison\"target=\"_blank\">Morrison<\/a> relishes in the realm of pain, willingly accepting and embracing discomfort levels as a competitive age-group swimmer.  &#8220;<i>In my youth I trained with a talented, tough group of distance swimmers including [Olympian] Mark Warkentin. We learned early on the rewards of hard work, and came to see pain in almost a positive light. [Therefore] my transition to marathon swimming as an adult was relatively smooth, in large part because I approached swim training with a certain sense of masochism from an early age<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s all part of the pleasure of open water swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openwaterswimming.com\"target=\"_blank\"><strong>Open Water Source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA BARBARA, California. May 25. &#8220;HE&#039;S a fish outta water.&#8221; That comment is made frequently about good swimmers by their less aquatically-oriented friends on terra firma. 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