Sleep and recovery

Sleep affects recovery from day to day.

If your trip involves chronically short sleep, TRIPS can reflect that as a more demanding overall plan than an otherwise similar trip with better recovery.

How to enter sleep well

• Use a normal expected sleep value, not an ideal one.
• If you know the trip will involve interrupted or restricted sleep, enter that honestly.

Why it matters

In multi-day planning, difficulty is not only about one hard day.

It is also about what your body can repeat across several days. Sleep changes that picture because reduced recovery can make later days feel harder even when the route stays the same.

Practical advice

If a trip includes likely poor sleep, do not ignore it in the planner. Compare the route with realistic and idealized sleep assumptions so you can see how much margin you may actually have.