{"id":396761,"date":"2017-06-25T16:55:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T16:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/25\/photo-athlete-ran-800m-race-with-5-months-old-pregnancy\/"},"modified":"2017-06-25T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T16:55:32","slug":"photo-athlete-ran-800m-race-with-5-months-old-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/25\/photo-athlete-ran-800m-race-with-5-months-old-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo: Athlete ran 800M race with 5-months-old pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">Monta\u00f1o, who raced eight months pregnant at the 2014 USATF Outdoors also in Sacramento, finished last in her 800m first-round heat in 2:21.40. She was 10 seconds faster than her time three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople were like, oh, you\u2019re going to run faster than you did last time because you\u2019re less pregnant,\u201d Monta\u00f1o told media in Sacramento, standing next to 2-year-old daughter Linnea. \u201cI was like, I\u2019m still pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Athletes are looking for top-three finishes to qualify for the world championships in London in August. Finals are later this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In a Wonder Woman top, Monta\u00f1o gritted her teeth on the final straightaway and raised her arms crossing the finish line.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/xAlysia2.jpg.pagespeed.ic.KglO-EaBC0.jpg\" alt=\"Alysia2.jpg\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"1170658099\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monta\u00f1o said she was inspired when she learned Gal Gadot, who played the title role in the movie \u201cWonder Woman,\u201d filmed half of it while five months pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw Wonder Woman, and I was like, I for sure am signing up for USA Nationals,\u201d Monta\u00f1o said. \u201cI already was thinking I was going to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Montano added that she had been mostly inspired by feedback from women who saw her racing while pregnant three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard from so many people who said they had been inspired by my story,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel responsible to be a representative. I represent women, I represent black women, I represent pregnant women. It\u2019s been fantastic.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Asked if she had been apprehensive about running in the searing heat, she told AFP:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely not. We are so incredibly privileged to live in America. There are women that birth babies after babies after babies in Saudi Arabia, in Africa. Honestly, two minutes running out in the heat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know how to take care of myself. I drank a ton of water, took a lot of electrolytes, which is not always the case for women who have babies in parts of the world that are much hotter than here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monta\u00f1o said it wasn\u2019t easier or harder racing Thursday versus three years ago, when she had a bigger baby bump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weird part about five months is you\u2019re still growing and like shifting a lot,\u201d she said. \u201cSo every week you have to readjust.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monta\u00f1o, who raced eight months pregnant at the 2014 USATF Outdoors also in Sacramento, finished last in her 800m first-round heat in 2:21.40. She was 10 seconds faster than her time three years ago. \u201cPeople were like, oh, you\u2019re going to run faster than you did last time because you\u2019re less pregnant,\u201d Monta\u00f1o told media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":396762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Photo: Athlete ran 800M race with 5-months-old pregnancy - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/25\/photo-athlete-ran-800m-race-with-5-months-old-pregnancy\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Photo: Athlete ran 800M race with 5-months-old pregnancy - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Monta\u00f1o, who raced eight months pregnant at the 2014 USATF Outdoors also in Sacramento, finished last in her 800m first-round heat in 2:21.40. 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