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@Greenbank
Sleep dep is very individual. I'm lucky that I need relatively little sleep if push comes to shove, whereas a friend can't do anything more than a 300km Audax as he just can't push through the weariness.
I was fine on PBP and LEL with no more than 60-90mins a night for 4/5 nights and maybe a 30 minute nap during the day. Those were only 200 miles/day though and on nice paved roads with controls serving food etc. Sleeping locations were a mixture of cots in a room of 300 farting people, on a chair with head slumped on a table, in a garden shed, on a stone floor with a blanket, or wrapped up in an emergency blanket in a church porch. I can sleep on icy gravel if necessary.
Never gone more than 4 or 5 nights but both long rides I stayed up the whole of the remaining day too:-
I'd be interested (and equally scared) to find my limits on this but a 14-day TCR type trip (I'm not fast enough to be at the pointy end) just isn't compatible with family life.