{"id":1190,"date":"2019-03-27T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2019-03-27T03:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:52:00","slug":"being-5-months-pregnant-didnt-stop-this-runner-from-competing-in-the-us-track-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"Being 5 Months Pregnant Didn&rsquo;t Stop This Runner From Competing In The US Track Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It certainly will not go down as the fastest 800-meter race of her career, but Alysia Monta\u00f1o will certainly remember her run at this year\u2019\u200bs U.S. Track and Field Championships for a long time. The 31-year-old ran the race while five months pregnant with her second child.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time Monta\u00f1o arrived at the U.S. championships to run pregnant. Back in 2014, she competed in the 800 meters while eight months along\u00a0because she wanted to show women that they should still be active while pregnant. This time around, in the searing heat, she ran 11 seconds faster than her 2014 time.<\/p>\n<p>Monta\u00f1o\u00a0finished last in her heat and thus won\u2019\u200bt qualify for the World Championships this summer;\u00a0however, that\u2019\u200bs not why the two-time bronze medalist at the world championships came to this year\u2019\u200bs meet to run. Wearing\u00a0a top with Wonder Woman\u2019s face emblazoned on it, she said she wanted to act as an inspiration to her fans and friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI represent so many different people: women, black women, pregnant women,\u201d Monta\u00f1o told TeamUSA.org.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s my responsibility to make sure I\u2019m a voice and an advocate for them.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It certainly will not go down as the fastest 800-meter race of her career, but Alysia Monta\u00f1o will certainly remember her run at this year\u2019\u200bs U.S. Track and Field Championships for a long time. The 31-year-old ran the race while five months pregnant with her second child. This isn\u2019t the first time Monta\u00f1o arrived at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}