cort basham

Rest enthusiast. Interdisciplinarian. Runner guy. Cross Country Head Coach + Track Distance Coach, Bowling Green HS (KY)

[Val @VK_HM]

Well, he has tenure

[cort basham @cortbasham]

@Alan_Couzens I coach HS kids. Last week's "threshold" run was 150m "on"/50m jog every 200 (coned 50m section). This week is 300 on/100 relaxed. Who knows what wild novelty awaits next week. :) All I know is the 400m split stays where we want it when it's a tiny little alternations workout.

[cort basham @cortbasham]

Been on this train for ages.

[Dr Paddy Barrett @Paddy_Barrett]

Sleep is not one of four health pillars.

It's the foundation the other three are built on.

Poor sleep → worse food choices.
Poor sleep → less desire to exercise.
Poor sleep → lower distress tolerance.

Fix the anchor before you fix anything else.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Movement is medicine.

Large systematic review of over 1,000 trials and 120,000 participants finds that exercise has a significant effect on symptoms of depression, anxiety, and psychological distress.

We need to do a better job of integrating mental and physical health.

[cort basham @cortbasham]

Proud of these girls today! Real shot at outdoor 4x400 record the first time they step on the track this March.

[Purple Striders @Purple_Striders]

This also ranks as the 3rd fastest girls 4x400m ever run at BGHS and the fastest one in 13 years.

[Purple Striders @Purple_Striders]

Girls 4x400m takes 11th at State Indoor with a new BGHS indoor 4x400m school record in 4:17.10!

Keilynn Wardlow>Kattie Rodriguez>Stella Miner>Mia Greenwell

[Purple Striders @Purple_Striders]

Girls 4x800m runs an indoor season best and finish 17th at Class 3A State today!

Stella Miner>Kattie Rodriguez>Nuala Smith>Lily Byl

[cort basham @cortbasham]

@fritz007 @ErikAP2910 @Alan_Couzens 1. This guy ain't Kipchoge.
2. 400m at 63 avg for Kipchoge? That's 4:12 mile pace. Not even 5k pace for him (his 12:46 PR is 4:07). 400 at slower than 5k pace with 30-60" rest is not doubled-over effort. Not even close.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Eileen Gu just won 3 medals (1 gold, 2 silvers) in skiing.

She also ran cross-country in high school.

Her PRs:
5k- 19:18
1600- 5:31

[cort basham @cortbasham]

These guys…can’t say enough good things. Maturity beyond their years, and I’m lucky to coach them! Phenomenal execution and racing today.

[Purple Striders @Purple_Striders]

State Championship day for Middle School Indoor Track. The @BGJHS Boys 4x800m relay takes 2nd in the State! They also set the BGJHS school record (9:57) for the indoor OR outdoor 4x8. It’s the all-time 4x8 mark! @BgPurplesAth

Kip Walden>Heron Doyle>Nicholi Campbell>Luke Griggs

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Listen to World champion Josh Kerr:

“I don’t do crazy workouts or crazy mileage. I just don’t miss days.

Consistency is my biggest weapon.

I’ll break any athlete down with how consistent I’m going to be training wise and just getting the work done.”

[ash b. pebble @sentientGirlx]

drug dealers in 2026: this cocaine is actually PACKED with protien

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

It’s time to take back excellence from the grifters, gurus, hackers, optimizers, and everyone else who reduces the human spirit to monetizable clickbait, marketing gimmicks, hacks, secrets, and quick fixes, none of which actually work. Here's 24 ideas to help:

1. Caring is cool. There is nothing to celebrate about an attitude of nonchalance. It’s a cop-out. A protective mechanism. A way to avoid stepping into the arena and risking failure. There are things worth caring deeply about, and you should care deeply about them.

2. Never sacrifice your values. Your values are your North stars, the qualities toward which you aspire. Regardless of what you are pursuing, do it in a way that aligns with your values.
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3. The things you work on also work on you. You aren’t just shaping the table, manuscript, marathon, scientific discovery, canvas, or song. Those pursuits are also shaping you.

4. Select big goals but climb where you are. Once you know what peak you’re aiming for, you’ve got to shift your attention to the day-to-day ascent; you’ve got to climb where your feet are. The bigger the goal, the smaller the steps.

5. Embrace a process mindset. Outcomes matter, but they are always the byproduct of a sound and attentive process. Focus on the process. Let the outcomes take care of themselves. Learn and adjust. Rinse, repeat.

6. Nothing great happens without focus. You’ve got to set aside time and space without distraction so the important projects in your life can receive your full attention.

7. Prioritize consistency over intensity. Anyone can crush themselves and have a heroic day, a heroic week, or maybe even a heroic month. But excellence is about generating a heroic body of work. Some days will be great. Some days will be terrible. Most will be somewhere in between. Become known for your consistency. Keep showing up.
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8. Abide by the law of compounding. Little by little it becomes a lot.

9. Use technology, but don’t let it use you. A good question to ask yourself regularly: Am I in charge of this technology, or is this technology in charge of me?

10. ​“Balance” is an illusion. You can’t do it all. Trying to is a surefire way to be miserable. You’ve got to make tradeoffs and adjust over time. You can emphasize different pursuits in different seasons of life.

11. Keep the main things the main things. Hacks, fads, and quick fixes have been cycling in and out since the beginning of time. In the fifth century BC, Herodotus searched for the Fountain of Youth as a way to live forever. Thousands of years later, we’re still searching.

12. The secret is there is no secret. The driving force of excellence is hard work done the right way with the right people at the right time.

13. Practice true discipline. Not the chest-thumping machismo performative variety, but the real thing: show up and do what you need to do, with care and integrity. Doing the hard thing today often makes tomorrow just a little easier.
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14. Make time for renewal. Stress plus rest equals growth. If you never step away and allow your mind-body system to recover, then you’re guaranteed to stall out long before you reach your potential. It takes discipline to keep going. But it also takes discipline to rest.
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15. Confidence comes from evidence. If you want to believe in yourself, you’ve got to give yourself evidence for that belief. Put in the reps.

16. Own your seat. Do the training. Then have the courage to trust it.

17. Stay patient. There is no such thing as an overnight breakthrough. Most good things take time. You can’t rush the process.

18. Stick-to-itiveness is key. The rare quality of staying power in a world that is obsessed with instant gratification is a secret weapon.

19. Motivation follows action. You don’t always need to feel good to get going; sometimes you need to get going to give yourself a chance at feeling good.

20. Create rituals and routines. It does not mean a series of 27 elaborate steps to start the day. It means having a few anchors to keep you grounded in an increasingly chaotic world. Your routine should work for you, not the other way around.

21. Curiosity is a powerful antidote to fear. Whether you play basketball or cello, repair cars or build tables, write books or coach teams, your craft can be a vessel for self-discovery. When you are driven by a genuine curiosity to see what’s possible, nothing can stop you.

22. Don’t go at it alone. Every modern science and every ancient wisdom tradition tells us that the people with whom we surround ourselves shape us. Going at it alone will make you angry and resentful, irrespective of what the internet bros say. Find your people and work together. This is the way.
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23. Intensity and joy can coexist. One of the greatest joys is working toward your aspirations with great intensity.
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24. Excellence is an infinite game. The goal is the path, and the path is the goal. So much of success simply comes down to staying on it.

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

If you start the movie "Hoosiers" at 10:07 p.m. and 48 seconds on New Year's Eve, you'll ring in 2026 just as Jimmy Chitwood hits the winning shot.

No need to thank me.

[cort basham @cortbasham]

Massive, massive influence on me as a teacher, coach, athlete, and person.

[Podcast Notes 🗒️ @podcastnotes]

A Navy SEAL, a Fortune 500 CEO, and a chess grandmaster all read the same book.

None of them play tennis.

The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey is the best performance psychology book ever written.

Here are 10 best quotes:

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

At the 1928 Olympics, women could run something longer than a sprint for the first time.

They raced the 800.

Disaster quickly ensued. Just about every paper reported the same thing: 5 women dropped out, Everyone else collapsed. It was chaos. And dangerous.

As a result, women would barred from anything longer than a sprint for the next 28 years.

...It was all a lie. No one struggled...

A single false story set back women's athletics for 3 decades. It teaches us about the power of a story:

[cort basham @cortbasham]

@wxornotBG Come here for the wx coverage, stay for the Stranger Things references. Will post pics of any red lightning or unidentified floating particles

[WKU Sports @WKUSports]

The Red & White return 𝙏𝙊𝘿𝘼𝙔 😎🏀

Come catch some exhibition hoops in Diddle Arena tonight at 6:30 PM – admission is 🆓

#GoTops | @WKUBasketball

[cort basham @cortbasham]

Tremendous, humanizing thread about competition. Deep truths!

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

My favorite part of the marathon is how it shows what true competition is.

It’s not about destroying your opponents, it’s about elevating one another.

Competition isn’t a simple binary: me vs. you.

It’s going on an exploration, to see where your limits lie, and learn how close you get to them.

[cort basham @cortbasham]

@Alan_Couzens I’ve been training pretty hard for 5k this summer. I’ve tried to match my “training mins” with walk/soft pedal biking z0-1 mins this cycle largely because it’s the least I can try to do “Because Couzens.” 😀