Yes - I am pleased not to be 'in the bulge'. My West Highlands 1000 in 2018 allowed me to pre-register and choose a relatively early start time.
I will be fast enough to get well ahead of the bulge by noon Monday and plan a couple of hours snooze then (and still be ahead of the bulge), and press on to - not quite sure - could be Carhaix (521k). Brest is tempting by midnight but 30 hours and 610k seems a bloody long way before a good sleep. On the WH1000 we started at 8pm and I made Oban at 456km in 23 hours, with a 90 minute snooze in the cafe at Campbeltown (as well as stops with food at Comrie (100k), Ardrishaig (sunrise/6am) and Tarbet for a full Scottish. It was not a flat parcours across Scotland and round the Kintyre peninsula and there were no trains.