Help deciding size of sleeping pad

Viggo,

I think the answer for your question might come down to your style of sleeping. If you tend to stay in one place then you could go with the shorter and narrower pad and save some weight. I tend to move around so I went with the large neoair. I try to bring whatever I can to help me sleep comfortably and reduce weight in other areas.

Thank you for your response. I'm somewhat of a mover when I sleep, and I'm leaning towards the long version now although it weights 200g more.

If the sleeping bag touches the ground, will it affect the temperature in the sleeping bag? I'm thinking that as I'm using a long sleeping bag (193cm), so ~8cm will reach outside the sleeping pad and touch the floor (although my feet would probably not touch that section, as I'm 185cm tall and the regular sized pad is 183cm). Even if my feet wont touch the colder section, I'm worried that it would lower the temperature in the bag. As mentioned, it goes below freezing point at night where I'm camping.

above. If you think that you will be fine with the shorter pad, just put your empty pack under the footend to provide some insulation when you stretch out. You may find though that a little longer/wider pad is a whole lot more comfortable to sleep on and thus worth the weight penalty. YMMV of course.

I'm 77-in tall and use a 72-in air mattress. I put my sit pad, a 9×14-in piece cut from a cheap-o CCF pad, at the foot of the pad to insulate if/when my feet go off the end. But I'm mostly a side sleeper, so 90% of the night I'm using less than the full length of the air pad anyway.