He ran during his time at Bradford Grammar School[1] and later went to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he was captain of the cross country team.
[2] Rigby has won many of the most prestigious fell races, including Ben Nevis, Borrowdale, the Isle of Jura, Wasdale,[3] the Langdale Horseshoe, Duddon Valley,[4] the Three Shires,[5] Glamaig,[6] and Stuc a' Chroin.
[7] His winning times for Ben Nevis and Wasdale, both set in 1990, are among the fastest in the history of those races and have not been beaten since.
[14] In 1988, Rigby completed a circuit of the Cairngorms, including the seventeen Munros in the area, in a time of 22:44.
Other runners have since taken on this challenge, now including eighteen Munros due to reclassification of the peaks, and it has come to be known as the Rigby Round.