Alysia Montano runs 800m at US Track and Field Championships while 8 months pregnant (Video)
By Dan Zinski
Most women when they’re 8 months pregnant just want to lay around on the couch in their sweats watching The View and sucking down pickle-and-baloney sandwiches (at least that’s what I’m given to understand from my vast experience watching dumb movies).
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But not Alysia Montano. She decided she wasn’t going to be a typical lazy about-to-give-birth woman. So she went out and ran the 800m at the US Track and Field Championships.
She came in last, but she had an excuse: SHE WAS FREAKING EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT.
Before you get too outraged – we know how the internet loves dispensing parenting advice – remember that Alysia, an Olympian, first checked with doctors to make sure it was okay for her to train and run while carrying a nearly fully-developed child inside her body.
Doctors signed off on it, so she did it. Her goal she said was not to get lapped, and she achieved that.
She also set an unofficial record for best time ever by an eight-months-pregnant woman. I haven’t actually checked up on that, but I feel pretty safe in assuming no one else has ever done this.
Montano says she did it to help society overcome the idea that women shouldn’t exercise during pregnancy. See ladies? You can be almost ready to give birth, and still run in a high-level track and field event. So there’s no excuse for you to be lounging around in bed.
Unless, you know, you want to lounge around in bed. It’s fine if that’s all you really want to do. I’m definitely not going to argue with a pregnant woman. I don’t want my head caved in with a heavy glass ashtray.
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