Ivor Tingting wrote:You could ride the Fred Whitton Challenge Route but might not be advisable if not on the day itself as traffic could be your nemesis.
I don’t think so The OP wanted 50K at the crack of dawn.
Interestingly though before the 'Fred' was conceived there used to be an Audax started in Keswick and did, like the Fred, every Lake District pass. I did it once and traffic, as I remember, wasn’t a problem