In the end, hopping on the sag wagon didn’t bruise Anne Bertelsen’s ego.

“I don’t think I made it even halfway. But I don’t care, really. I was mostly afraid I was going to miss this,” Ms. Bertelsmen said, gesturing toward the massive crisp white tent before her, under which 256 people, most of them dressed in sweaty spandex, bustled to and from seats carrying plates heaped with glistening oysters on the half shell, rabbit pâté on walnut raisin toast and Jersey sweet corn cakes with smoked squash.

It was cocktail hour at Farm-to-Fork, the culmination dinner of Tour de Farm, a combination bicycle tour and culinary event held in Warren County for the first time last weekend.

Ms. Bertelsen, a marketing strategist in her 50s who lives in Maplewood and is a polio survivor, was among 350 participants who signed up for the Weekend Warrior route, a 35-mile trek through hilly western New Jersey with stops along the way at four farms and one country market. That route, like Tour de Farm’s two other bicycle trips scheduled for that day — the 78-mile Extreme N.J. Farm route, with seven stops, and the five-mile Family Friendly route, with four stops — began and ended at Race Farm, a 150-acre fruit and vegetable farm in Blairstown.

Staggered morning start times allowed for all riders to return to Race Farm by 1:30 p.m., where the Farm-to-Fork dinner, prepared by eight chefs with locavore leanings, kicked off.