How much does high mileage help you double at track meets?

As a senior in a similar spot, I am inclined to believe that you would be more ready than, say, a 30MPW runner doing the same (especially for a 16-32 double), but if you’re running both of them all out it certainly won’t be easy, necessarily.

yeah my dual meet schedule really screws me over, sometimes I the head coach which is the sprint coach makes my coach make me triple 8/16/32 at dual meets since we need the points. There's one week in late april were we have 2 competitive dual meets then an invite on saturday. Not looking forward to it, and I need to be able to recover quickly.

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The benefit you’ll see may occur towards the end of your season, and I think your performance will suffer in the early races of the season.

Consider getting a good recovery drink to consume immediately after your first race of the day.

I am not sure there is any evidence that high mileage helps doubling. now being fitter helps you do more sub maximal efforts. If you run a or in 1600, coming back in the 3200 in an hour is rough. Run 10s off your PR and it is a lot easier…

I don't know the timeline of your season, but you need to eventually transition your mileage into workouts, which will do more to help with those doubles and triples. and though you may have freedom to choose what you are doing now, during the season, you will be doing the workouts from your team. Some of the best workouts you do will be those doubles and triples from the dual meets, if you can withstand them. And yes, the mileage will give you the strength to get through those meets, but you will need to drop mileage when you get into a heavy competition period that like that.

Are you a strong enough runner that a lot of those dual meets will be tempo like efforts, or will you be pushing the pace through everything? If you are gritting everything out, it might be difficult to ever get the pop you need to go to the next level at your bigger meets. You will need to be very careful and have a lot of easy days in between.