We had 5 teams for this morning's ride starting from Matt and Amy Dean's house in Johnston County.

The teams: Matt & Amy Dean (our hosts), Ed & Jeanne Downing (it was good to see Jeanne back on the bike after her surgery in the Fall), Chet Buell and Cindy Van Der Wiele, Andy Stewart and Emily Rosen, and Smith Doss & Claude Monnier.

Matt and Amy had scouted 2 routes for us: a 30 mile and a 45 mile route. Each of them had the now infamous "new sandy hill road" hill.  We remembered it from the Frost Bite ride we did in February (fairly well named, we may say).   Matt and Amy pretended to have a mechanical so we had to ride down the hill and back up (not quite true, Chet called the mechanical).

The routes split right after the big hill, the long route took us along lake Buckhorn reservoir, for the city of Wilson.

Sprint points go to: Chet and Cindy (Wilson Co), Smith & Claude (Nash Co, and Johnston Co).  The airborne stunt: Smith & Claude bunny hopped over the mean tracks getting into the town of Bailey.

Finally the wind reminded us it is March after all for about 10 miles back to the ranch.

We enjoyed the coffee and donuts after the ride, the dogs enjoyed salty bikers back, and willing to pet them.

Great thanks to Matt and Amy for laying out great routes in rural Johnston Co.  Did we get passed by what, 10 cars?