Keep “Doing the Unthinkable”

Keep “Doing the Unthinkable” and spread this challenge to everyone you meet. ~ Scott Rigsby

If you think running a marathon or completing a triathlon for a great cause is beyond your reach, don’t tell Scott Rigsby...

Scott Rigsby is dedicated to inspiring, informing and enabling individuals with physical challenges to live an active lifestyle.

Rigsby was an 18-year-old high school football player in July 1986, when an accident changed the course of his life. Riding in the back of a trailer that was clipped from behind by an 18-wheeler, Rigsby was dragged 328 feet, and eventually pinned under the trailer he was riding in. His right leg was immediately amputated--the first of 17 surgeries he would endure over the next year. Doctors said it would be 18 months before he could walk again, never mind run. "I went through a denial stage, thinking it was going to grow back," Rigsby said. "It was a difficult time."

He wanted to run. "If you tell me I can't do something," he says, "I'm going to find a way to do it."

Inspiration came in December 2004, when Rigsby read a Runner's World story about Sarah Reinertsen, the first female above-the-knee amputee to attempt the Hawaii Ironman. "I had never even done a triathlon, but when I realized that no double amputee had done an Ironman," says Rigsby, "I decided I'd go for it." http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-297--12344-0,00.html