How long does your high school team go for warmups and cooldowns? Let's say for a speed workout like 200s/400s? And how about for something like mile repeats? And then how about for a 5k race?
We do usually 1 mile, sometimes 2 for a warmup. And the cooldown is usually 1.5. I wish we did 3 and 3 but my coach thinks thats too much.
What do you guys do for different stuff?
When I was in high school our coach just gave us ~15 minutes to do whatever we wanted. We had a one-mile-long trail behind our track, so I would usually hit that trail and do two for warmup, two for cooldown, sometimes three with an extra mile on the track.
In high school we did around 1-1.5 for each. In college it was 20 min. or a little less than 3 miles. A happy medium might be 2 miles or 15 min. Also, I feel the cooldown is the more important to not make too short.
As for workouts and races, my experience was that the warmup/cooldown length was standard regardless of interval length or if it was a race. It puts you into a routine which benefits you as much mentally as physically.