Last week, the International Six Day (ISDE) Enduro took place in Galicia, Spain, with some 600 riders entering for the marathon event. The epic six-day enduro finished last Saturday with riders taking in over 7 hours riding on off-road tracks each day surrounding the Spanish countryside.
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There was plenty of success with riders from Wales out there. The Welsh Junior Club team, made up of Tomos Wright, Sion Evans and Carwyn Rosser, the latter both from Lampeter and members of the Dyfed Dirt Bike Club, finished 11th overall out of 124 club teams and the second British best club on the event. The Welsh Senior Club team did even better finishing 6th overall club team and nabbing best British club team in the process with the riders Alex Walton from Rhayader, Gethin Humphries from Ffestiniog, and Roger Holland from Monmouth not forgetting their team manager Paul Davies a happy man with his squad of six Welsh riders.
The DDBC field two teams out there with one of the teams claiming the third best club team from the UK with Rhys Evans also crossing the finish line for the Lampeter based club.
However, this year, the ISDE had opened a class for a ladies’ club team only, and Delun Davies, 17, from Caio near Lampeter, had been selected to ride for the Builth Wells MCC ladies’ club team. She jumped at the chance; many thought the six day event may have been a bit ambitious to enter for the girls, but Delun, along with Megan Wilson and Zoe Zembruski, had other thoughts. They all finished the gruelling event, the toughest ISDE, for many years, it was said, with wet conditions and plenty of mud and bogs, similar to some home events in Wales. The super trio also claimed second overall ladies’ club team for the whole event against teams from worldwide that had entered the prestigious enduro.
