![]() And being a little kid (six the first time I moved, eight the second), I was even better at making friends. Moving probably wasn’t easy for me by any means, but I’ve always been good at making new friends. ![]() Kind of like in the Karate Kid movie, or was it a stress-free experience?Ĭlayton: I don’t really remember how stressful it really was. IRF: How was it moving, though? Things like that are usually a major deal in a kid’s life. Tennessee was a pretty cool place, really good people, but I’m glad we moved to Colorado. There’s this picture of us and there are shingles coming through the roof and then you look over at our neighbor’s, there’s no house! So that was lucky how it worked out. A tornado hit our house right before we were going to move in! It flattened our next door neighbor’s house. Some interesting things happened there, actually. It was a pancake-flat town where I mostly played roller-hockey. I believe mini-me was a lot like the slightly-larger-than-the-average-distance-runner me is: impatient, competitive, candy-loving, and genuinely interested in people and the curiosities of the world.Īs for moving, my Dad was really lucky in the jobs he was offered, so we moved states and went over to Tennessee, right by Memphis. I think a couple times my dad would take us out into the dust bins of Nevada and we’d come back with bull snakes or the like. What were you into as a kid and how life was for the mini-you?Ĭameron Clayton: I started out as a youngster, as many American kiddos do, taking up football, learning to ride a bike, playing on my friend’s farm, and catching frogs. You moved from Reno, to Tennessee, to Colorado, lots of moving. IRunFar: So Cameron, tell us about how it all began. We caught up with Cameron to hear his story. He is now back home, catching his breath, and taking it all in before tackling his first 100-miler at Western States in a month’s time. Since then, it has been something of a whirlwind for the Boulder-based runner: two more podium finishes at TNFEC50 and Lake Sonoma, a call from Greg Vollet that led to him joining the Salomon International Team, and a trip to La Palma to race his first Ultra SkyMarathon when he toed the line at Transvulcania a couple of weeks ago. I mean, this is a guy who hadn’t run an ultra until last September when he showed up and won the Run Rabbit Run 50, breaking the course record while doing so. “ This was great and I had a lot of fun I finished a lot better than I thought.It’s safe to say that Cameron Clayton has made an immediate impact on the world of trail and ultrarunning. “At the beginning of the year, I set a goal with my coach to make the state meet,’’ he said. He had been a cross-country and track runner. Kloos’ biggest regret is that he didn’t start diving seriously until a few years ago. “It hurt, but after the first couple of dives I was OK.’’& amp amp lt /p> The biggest task for Cheetham was to stay calm and ignore the pain from a rib injury he recently suffered during dry land training on a trampoline. I’m happy, but I want to be even happier next year.’’ “I’m not disappointed because this was my first state meet,’’ he said. He has been diving since he was 6 years old and competitively for five years. It helped having been here before.’’Ĭheetham had dreams of a podium finish, which is a top-six, but he was happy getting into the top 16 to score points for Orange. “Then I take a deep breath and get my feet set. “As they are reading my dive (over the public address system), I verbally repeat it to myself to make sure it seems right,’’ he said. He won the Junior United States national championship and Junior Pan American Games gold medal in synchronized diving with Grayson Campbell of Northern Virginia last year. Thatcher followed the routine that has made him a world-class junior diver. Of his final dive, he said, "I didn’t feel like it was my best, but I thought it was clean.’’& amp amp lt /p> It was a similar spot to what I was in last year." “I’ve been chasing this all year long, and I knew I could do it. “Oh, yes, I did want to set the record,’’ Thatcher said.
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