Route: leaving the rectory and cycling down Kirkgate to Market Place, Castlegate and up left onto Isel Road. Following this consistently gradually uphill for 3km and then downhill, ignoring the left turn to the Isel Bridge over the Derwent. Continuing past the back of the Lakes Distillery and passing the left turn to the bridge at the foot of Bassenthwaite and thus to the Pheasant Inn for a pint in the garden.
Afterwards, two sharp ascents: first to Routenbeck and then out of Wythop Mill, and then home at speed down the glorious slope of Strawberry How Road.
Conditions: another spectacularly sunny day after a week of such days, though cool.
Pub: the Pheasant Inn, Bassenthwaite, (part way round the circuit) for Bowness Bay Brewery Swan Blonde.