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rience of timekeeping, so I asked him about the start control format, and I was not surprised to hear him say: "I did miss the time keeping though". As for his crew, he said "Those of us that stayed on 2 wheels did well taking 1st in Sen C, 1st in Vet B, and 3rd in SSA. Our pal Andy crashed hard and Neal had to stop and see if he was still alive so they dropped too many points to take home any iron or bragging rights. Thanks to the DER club for putting on a GREAT enduro!" - Mark Yonjof, A SSR Next, I found an enduro rider that completed his first US enduro, that is Pedro Faria, from Portugal: Pedro added: "I came from a small town in Portugal call Telheiro. I had my first race bike when I was 8 years old and my first enduro race there when I was 15 years old. The enduro in Europe is quite different than what I see here, in that there are three different types of sections; one is enduro secton, consisting of enduro trails, second is a "cross section", made of 50/100 of jumps and 3rd the extreme section which is enduro and cross but on real tough trails. The start and scoring is all the same way as what DER had here, and as far as the race, I really enjoyed it, had fun, made some friends on my row and even helped one of them with my tools so he could keep going on. It was awesome to race and meet all these guys and I really felt like I was back home, what a nice Pedro Faria, from Portugal, experience it was; managed a 3rd place C Open and I'm already planning on repeating it again!! I have only been doing some HS here, but now after this event, I will be planning on doing more enduro.. I have to look for some sponsors because right now I'm doing all on my own. I'm just 28 years old but luckily I have my great wife and daughter that support me with everything, and specially they go with me anywhere and they love bikes and what I do and that's the most important for me!" - Pedro Faria, C Open, 3rd place Lastly, I wanted to add comments from east coast enduro "living legend" Charlie Stapleford… Charlie stated: "We want to thank everyone that was able to show their support by attending our 50th anniversary of the infamous DELAWARE STATE ENDURO. We acknowledged the tough act to follow after four of our ECEA clubs showed the way and each event was an excellent example of why our association has so many reasons to be proud. Seemingly, by all your kind responses; we too have kept the bar on a very high notch. Now let's all keep the ball rolling and support the next event too. RORR always has an excellent run for us to start off the rock event season. We especially want to express our appreciation for all the fine examples of sportsmanship and responsibility displayed by our enduro community." - Charlie Stapleford, DER Trail Boss 26 Trail Rider www.TrailRider.com