When Dartmouth resident Tom Gidwitz participated in the Buzzards Bay Coalition’s very first Buzzards Bay Watershed Ride in 2007, he and the 39 other cyclists who signed up for the 75-mile, day-long bike ride from Westport to Woods Hole weren’t quite sure what to expect.

“It was an adventure in pioneering – we’d never done it before,” said Gidwitz of that first Watershed Ride, held under blue skies on a crisp October day.

Gidwitz came back in 2008 for the second Watershed Ride, and again in 2009 for the third – and every year since then. Now, Gidwitz and hundreds of other cyclists from across the South Coast and beyond are gearing up for the 10th anniversary Watershed Ride, which will take place on Sunday, October 2.

With each passing year, the Watershed Ride has grown from its humble beginnings into a can’t-miss community event for South Coast cyclists of all ages and abilities.