When Josh Cantrill and his 15 mates rode back into town after completing the 230-odd kilometres between Sydney and Orange through torrential rain, they were exhausted, sore and desperate for a beer.
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But most importantly, they were at least $20,000 up.
Sometime during that long ride they hit their $100,00 fundraising target, and then began exceeding it.
Nearly a week on and Mr Cantrill is no longer physically sore from the herculean effort but was still shocked by the amount of money the Orange community had contributed to the Cantrill family's effort to give back to Ronald McDonald House in Westmead.
"It was pretty daunting with 16 blokes on the road who aren't cyclists," the father-of-three said.
"It was pretty hectic but we did much better than we expected."
A good 60km of their bike-ride had been through the spring deluge of last weekend, while another portion had been through the Blue Mountains.
If anything though, Mr Cantrill said the rain had been welcoming. Shortly before it had been stifling hot and the thunderstorm had been quite a relief for the 16 cyclists.
There had been more than a couple of hiccups too, including 35 flat tyres and some painful cramping in one rider's foot, but they had ploughed through.
It had been sometime on Saturday that one of their support crew told Mr Cantrill that they had hit their $100,000 target for Ronald McDonald House.
Along with his wife Alana, daughters Hannah and Harper, and of course Judd, Mr Cantrill had spent a lot of time at Ronald McDonald House while their little boy was being treated for Trachebronchomalicia at the nearby Children's Hospital.
When they had started the Ride for Judd campaign, their target had been $60,000.
"I'm so incredibly blown away by it. How a small town like Orange could raise so much," Mr Cantrill said.
And if racking up $20,000 in just a few days and hitting a huge fundraising target wasn't enough, the 16 mates had arrived back into town on October 24 to the cheers of 150-odd locals outside the Gladstone Hotel.
Within days though, the question was already being floated: what does next year's fundraiser look like?
"My mates are putting the pressure on me to see what's next. Something bigger ... maybe the same ride on penny farthings," he laughed.
To donate or find out more head to https://fundraise.rmhc.org.au/gws-rideforjudd.
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