Clayton Treska

Clayton Treska was a 290 pound Marine when he was diagnosed with Stage 1 Testicular Cancer. After six rounds of chemotherapy, he decided to start swimming cycling and running to lean out now that his battle with cancer was behind him. Not long afterwards. in July of 2009, the doctors found a tumor on his…

The Sweetest Kiss

I was interviewing cycling coach Chris Carmichael for the Triathlon Club of San Diego back in 2009. In the audience, there was one person who stood out from the rest. His skin was pasty, his t-shirt seemed way too big for him, his eyes were sunken deep into the sockets and he was wearing a…

Clayton Treska – Babbittville

Clayton Treska was a 290 pound Marine when he was first diagnosed with testicular cancer. After getting a clean bill of health, he started training for triathlon before persistent back pain turned out to be a reoccurrence of his cancer, but this time the diagnosis was much worse: terminal. His journey from there to the…