Adversity is Certain
HOW YOU RESPOND DEFINES YOUR LEGACY
Ultra Runner
Trailblazing new distances for those like me. I was born with defects from face to my feet and never meant to walk. These defects include severe bilateral clubfoot, contracture disorders, knee and jaw deformities and more. My face and legs required extensive reconstructive surgeries.
I am the first hybrid prosthetic-orthotic user to complete an ultra marathon. The ultramarathon distances I finished are 31.1 miles (50km), 42.5 miles, 45 miles, 50 miles, 100k (62.14 miles), and 100 miles. As of 2026, no other person in my category has finished an ultramarathon. I will continue to trailblaze further distances. I am based in Las Vegas, NV with my incredible family (we got 3 amazing kids).
Recent Media Appearances
"Adaptive ultra runner Scott Davidson has achieved a milestone that stands alone in endurance sport: running 100 miles while wearing bilateral Exosym hybrid prosthetic-orthotics. The distance itself is one of the rarest accomplishments in athletics—even among healthy runners, only a tiny fraction ever reach 100 miles.
Many thousands of these devices are in use around the world, helping people with devastating lower-limb injuries and severe congenital limb defects regain basic mobility—including elite service members and accomplished athletes—yet no runner has completed any ultramarathon using them. For years, covering 100 miles under these conditions was widely viewed as impossible. Davidson’s finish rewrites that assumption, marking a singular milestone in endurance sport."
Next Up
100 mile ultra completed on March 8, 2026.
I'm on a Vision Question to finish the Badwater 135 course in under 60 hours following the same rules implemented by the Bad Water 146 runners (see HERE). Each day I dream of Badwater - the World’s toughest ultra.
Mission
Presumptively, my birth defects are due to my Veteran father’s Agent Orange exposures. Out of my adversities rose my purpose. Outside of running, I seek to:
1. Educate and Legislate: notable percentage of the offspring of Veterans exposed to Agent Orange are born with defects. I am pushing the United States Government to change how they handle us. See my legislation HERE.
2. Bring high quality care: push for innovation and expanded access to life changing prosthetics and orthotics in order to eliminate the crippling barriers of limited mobility.
3. Empower: I spent a childhood bullied for the appearance of my face and legs. Older kids threatened to break my legs. Teachers and coaches made horrific comments. The stares and comments continue but I would never change how I was born. I made my adversities my purpose and I hope to empower others to do the same.
I live in constant uncertainty not knowing what next will fail on my body. I need expensive hybrid prosthetic-orthotics to stand and walk that are not covered by insurance. My entire life I've been told I can't. Yet I do. And through all this adversity, I am happy and full of purpose. In fact, my adversity is my purpose. You too can adapt and thrive despite the adversity you face.
Here you will find hope.