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When tired I've no problem falling asleep anywhere. Benches, church porches, whatever. Most of the time I'm warm enough to just stop and nap but on LEL I used a space blanket to keep me warm (it had been raining and I was soaked) for an hour doze in a church porch in Brampton.
Audax: Embrace your inner tramp.
Favourite on the Bryan Chapman was this bench: http://goo.gl/maps/9FzbZ
This was necessary since I wasn't particularly fit and so I was only an hour inside the time limits for the majority of the ride. I had a 30 minute nap with my head on a table at Menai and then 15 minutes on that bench, but I'm lucky that I can easily handle sleep deprivation.
If you're fast then you can build up a decent buffer to use for sleep. 300 in 13 hours would probably mean 400k in 18 hours. For a 6am start that puts you at midnight, perfect time for sleep and you've got 7 hours in the bank so I'd plan to get going again at 5am or 6am to leave some spare time for later. That's then 14 or 15 hours to smash out the last 200km. That's almost cheating.