THE AWAY-GAME CLOCK

The team arrives.
The body takes time.

See the same game on two clocks. Then protect the hours your schedule can actually give the players.

01 / THE TRIP

One event.
Two time references.

Use the destination’s local clock for arrival and game time. The home clock is a familiar reference—not a measurement of anyone’s circadian phase.

GAME AT DESTINATION

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SAME MOMENT · HOME CLOCK

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—between arrival and game

—clock difference at game time

02 / PROTECT THE NIGHT

A bedtime is a plan.
Opportunity needs room.

Include the real constraints: hotel arrival, breakfast, travel to the venue, meetings and warm-up. This estimates scheduled time available, not sleep achieved.

Night beginning onPlanned lights outPlanned wake timeFirst required commitment

All times use the destination zone. A wake time earlier than lights out is the next day. The commitment is on the planned wake date; include preparation time in that time.

—scheduled opportunity available

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03 / THE COACH CAN CHANGE THIS

Bring a decision
to the briefing.

Choose what staff should review. These are planning prompts, not an automatically prescribed circadian program.

Give arrival a realistic runway.Include baggage, ground travel, food and hotel access.Move the constraint when possible.Can a meeting, breakfast or recovery appointment move?Coordinate the timing.Light, sleep and training need one staff-reviewed plan.Learn from the trip.Compare the plan with diary entries and the player’s experience.

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04 / MAKE THE LESSON STICK

Two questions.
A better conversation.

It is 10 p.m. at the hotel, but 7 p.m. on the home clock. Does choosing an early bedtime guarantee the player will fall asleep? No. The schedule and the player’s internal timing can differ. Yes. The destination clock resets the body on arrival.

Two players follow the same hotel bedtime. Should the coach assume they are at the same biological time? Yes. The same schedule means the same circadian phase. No. Prior schedules and individual timing can differ.

WHY THIS BELONGS IN THE TRAINING PLAN

Travel is part
of the performance story.

A study of 46,535 Major League Baseball games found associations between estimated jet lag and specific performance measures, especially after eastward travel. The effects depended on the context. It was an observational analysis—not a test of this planner or proof that a particular schedule improves a team’s results.

Read Song, Severini & Allada, 2017 ↗

This tool converts time zones and checks schedule constraints. It does not estimate adaptation, diagnose jet lag, determine readiness, or prescribe light exposure, melatonin or medication.

The team arrives.The body takes time.

One event.Two time references.

A bedtime is a plan.Opportunity needs room.

Bring a decisionto the briefing.