Eoin Morton remembered how he'd crashed before on today's Rás route and how his father Peter won a stage of the Rás in the late 1970s just down the road in Mallow (Photo: Ryan Byrne - Inpho)
Having ended the debate about whether the county riders can compete in the An Post Rás in the 'professional era', Eoin Morton was clearly overwhelmed having won stage 2 of the race from Mullingar into Charleville.
After getting clear in a breakaway on the opening stage for a period and taken the climbers' jersey, Morton said he planned to "attack, attack and try and make the race".
And that's exactly what he did on the longest stage of the race today.
He first broke clear with Daire Feeley from Galway iTap and Adam Armstrong (Louth ASEA-Wheelworx) but the Continental level teams and national squads in the race would not let them go.
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However, when Morton went again a little further up the road with Bryan McCrystal (Louth ASEA-Wheelworx) they were gone for the day.
They only just held on - by 11 seconds in the end - but that's all you need.
Morton spoke in the audio interview below about looking forward to ringing his father - Peter Morton - who won a Rás stage in Mallow in the late 1970s and about trying to take it all in.
He also said he was very disappointed for breakaway companion McCrystal who just fell short of taking the yellow jersey.
Eoin Morton talks winning and his Rás family history
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