Mary Martin

My Story

I didn't start She Runs Wild Foundation because I read about a problem. I started it because I lived it.

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As the race director of the Standhope Ultra Challenge — an ultramarathon in Idaho's Pioneer Mountains — I was already building nursing stations, refrigerating breast milk between aid stations, and sponsoring mom runners to toe the starting line. Not because anyone asked me to. Because it was obviously the right thing to do.

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And the response told me everything. Mothers showed up. They cried at the finish line. They told me it was the first time a race had ever made them feel like they belonged.

That's when I knew this needed to be bigger than one race.

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I'm a trail runner, a gravel cyclist, and a mom to my daughter Pyper. I know what it takes to get out the door when life is full and the support isn't there. She Runs Wild Foundation exists to close that gap — with real resources, real race partnerships, and a community that shows up for mother athletes the way they show up for everyone else.

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The wild belongs to mothers too. Let's prove it.

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— Mary