No. Each gel gives you 1 extra kilometer, and adds a little bit of damage to your health i.e. the more gels you take the more upset your stomach becomes.
To recover your health you need to either rest or run slower than the speed value for the terrain you are running over.
e.g. if the speed value is 10 and you run at 8 then you will recover some health. Or you can rest for 1 or 2 hours and see your health recover.
If you rest you will only cover 3 kms for that turn, but your health damage will be cut in half for each full hour that you rest.
If you only cover 3 km for that turn when resting is there any point in resting for less than 2 hours? because as I understand it you cover 3 km no matter how much you rest, so why not rest the full allocated time?
In the previous game you could run AND rest during a turn. The game engine will handle this no problem. But I was getting confused entering the numbers and messed things up on the last turn.
So for this game I'm trying it so you can only run OR rest.
So yes, if you are going to rest it makes sense to rest for 2 hours.
I'm glad I understood how it works. I can have thick skull sometimes :P