Paralyzed hockey player Matt Brown, racing partner Lucas Carr preparing for their 9th Boston Marathon

Three days before the 127th Boston Marathon, a pair of unique local competitors did a training workout on the streets of their Massachusetts hometown.Matt Brown, the Norwood High School hockey player who was paralyzed in 2010 at the age of 15, and longtime racing partner Lucas Carr are preparing to race together for the ninth time in the Boston Marathon’s wheelchair duo division.”I’ve been so lucky in my road to recovery with the village that I’ve behind me. You know now that this is that village becoming part of a village for someone else,” Brown said. They met when Matt was just a kid and Carr, a former Army Ranger and firefighter who owns a tree service, came over to trim trees in the backyard.”This is a young man who I appreciate a lot,” Carr said. “It is a young man who I look up to a lot.” Together, they’re raising money for the Matt Brown Foundation, which has granted more than $125,000 to individuals and families living with paralysis. “This is for a bigger group of people, those who have spinal cord injuries can see us and rise to occasions on many levels,” Carr said.The duo first teamed up to run the Boston Marathon in 2012 to raise awareness of spinal cord injuries. For the third straight year, their efforts will raise money for the Matt Brown Foundation.”For me, it’s easy. I just cut back on some of the Twinkies and make sure I’m light in the chair for him,” Brown joked.Brown and Carr said their favorite part of the route from Hopkinton to Copley Square is the “Scream Tunnel” at Wellesley College.”You hear it a half-mile out,” Brown said. “It’s this low little buzz and it gets louder and louder and louder.””There’s a prize at the top of that hill that you’re going up, and then you’re there. And then you’re like ‘Oh my God’ with all the signs,” Carr said.”Everyone over there is having a very, very good time,” Brown added.Brown and Carr are all about positive energy and the foundation’s motto is “Never quit. Overcome. Forever forward.” — words both of those men live by.

NORWOOD, Mass. —

Three days before the 127th Boston Marathon, a pair of unique local competitors did a training workout on the streets of their Massachusetts hometown.

Matt Brown, the Norwood High School hockey player who was paralyzed in 2010 at the age of 15, and longtime racing partner Lucas Carr are preparing to race together for the ninth time in the Boston Marathon’s wheelchair duo division.

“I’ve been so lucky in my road to recovery with the village that I’ve behind me. You know now that this is that village becoming part of a village for someone else,” Brown said.

They met when Matt was just a kid and Carr, a former Army Ranger and firefighter who owns a tree service, came over to trim trees in the backyard.

“This is a young man who I appreciate a lot,” Carr said. “It is a young man who I look up to a lot.”

Together, they’re raising money for the Matt Brown Foundation, which has granted more than $125,000 to individuals and families living with paralysis.

“This is for a bigger group of people, those who have spinal cord injuries can see us and rise to occasions on many levels,” Carr said.

The duo first teamed up to run the Boston Marathon in 2012 to raise awareness of spinal cord injuries. For the third straight year, their efforts will raise money for the Matt Brown Foundation.

“For me, it’s easy. I just cut back on some of the Twinkies and make sure I’m light in the chair for him,” Brown joked.

Brown and Carr said their favorite part of the route from Hopkinton to Copley Square is the “Scream Tunnel” at Wellesley College.

“You hear it a half-mile out,” Brown said. “It’s this low little buzz and it gets louder and louder and louder.”

“There’s a prize at the top of that hill that you’re going up, and then you’re there. And then you’re like ‘Oh my God’ with all the signs,” Carr said.

“Everyone over there is having a very, very good time,” Brown added.

Brown and Carr are all about positive energy and the foundation’s motto is “Never quit. Overcome. Forever forward.” — words both of those men live by.