Courtney was one of those amazing tracksters who could produce amazing times anywhere from 100 yards to a mile: 9.7 100 yard dash, 220: 21, national champion in 400 meters (45.8) and in the low fours for a mile! Still alive and kicking in his late 80s!
“It was a new kind of agony for me,” he later wrote. “My head was exploding, my stomach ripping, and even the tips of my fingers ached. The only thing I could think was, ‘If I live, I will never run again.’”
