That's how I saw myself, and imagining the speed, imagining Joey Buckley flying beside me, our hands on the wheels, ready to stop on a dime, I decided we'd do just that we'd race down the hill this morning, early, before too many people were sitting around the courtyard on such a fine day.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Warm Springs'

And when we'd finished our snacks and I had hold of little pieces of Joey Buckley's life, we'd race our wheelchairs down the steep paved hill where on Saturday afternoons the stretchers and wheelchairs wound their way down the path between the buildings from the courtyard to the movie theater.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Warm Springs'

The "warmup" for this race was a 2.8-mile run up and down an 1, 100-foot hill.

FORBES: Pain is good