"I mean, it's still unbelievable. It's like, I think my legs are sore, but I can't really feel it."
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Words fresh out of Codie Miller's mouth less than five minutes after dismounting from his seven-hour winning ride.
Taking home the top place for Division 3 in the Grafton to Inverell race, the experience was "unbelievable".
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"I still can't believe it," he told the Times.
"I'm over the moon!"
He was joined by two other Inverell locals in Division 3: Dan Harmon and Brendon Jones.
Jones took the grueling race in seven hours and 17.23 seconds, coming in 27th.
Harmon came in 53rd with a time of seven hours and 57.58.
"Training for the next race will begin tomorrow," Harmon laughed, exhausted but exhilarated, surrounded by family at the finish line.
It was a great race - that went nothing like Millers' expectations.
"I went with my gut and it paid it off today," he said.
His made the 228 kilometer ride with a time of seven hours and 16.34 seconds.
He was followed by number 64, Grafton's Dallas Parker, with a time of seven hours and 17.12 seconds, with Cameron Taylor hot on his heels for the same recorded time.
"To be honest, I was happy to get over the range in a good position, it was still a really big bunch at the top, before the feed zone came back to like 50 riders ... it was just, not many people working on the front so it was not super fast the whole way," Miller said.
"Brendon Jones rode his heart out for me, took me off the front, and I just had to finish it."
He said last time they rode, it came down to a much smaller group.
"With 20kms to go and 40 or 50 riders, I knew I couldn't win it from there."
The Inverell boy at heart, he's been living away but spent five weeks in training at Taree, with the last few in Armidale.
"But I like to come back and train with the Inverell boys as much as I can," he noted.
"I think I've done 6000kms this year, with lots of tough rides."
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