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Bach were in position to win
the overall Club Team event un-
til Bach dropped out with a me-
chanical issue.
"I had a good time at Six Days,
but I don't know if I would go
back to Argentina," says De-
Long. "It was kind of a sketchy
place. That trip made me aware
that I take for granted what we
have back home."
Aside from DeLong's issue
with travel in and around Argenti-
na, the terrain posed a new prob-
lem for the Pennsylvania rider.
"The riding was tough, it was
sandy and I'm not used to that
desert type of terrain," says De-
Long. "For me, it was about tak-
ing it easy and keeping the bike
running, because there were a
lot of bikes dying out there. Chris
Bach blew his bike up, which
sucks because we would have
won the Club division as a team if
that hadn't happened."
The 2015 National Enduro Se-
ries starts even earlier than last
year's series, but DeLong will be in
much better shape when this se-
ries kicks off then he was in 2014."
"I want to make sure I'm ready,
for sure," says DeLong. "The
goal is to try to push my training
to a higher level. There's going to
be some pressure carrying the
number one plate, I'm not going
to lie, but I'm going in with the at-
titude to give 110 percent," says
DeLong. "It's going to be tough to
defend it; there's going to be a lot
of good guys lining up this year.
The top 10 will be stacked but I
feel good about my chances, and
I'm confident we can win." CN
At just 23 years of age, DeLong
has a promising career in off-road
racing still ahead of him.
