Friday, June 27, 2014

Amazing woman running with an 8 month pregnancy

woman running with an 8 month pregnancy

At first, I said to myself this is not safe. It is risky running with an 8 month pregnancy. But then I'm from Nigeria. I can speak for most of the Nigerian women, at least the Nigerians in Nigeria. At 4 weeks of pregnancy, they are handicapped: meaning-a fully stay home mother to be.


One of them said, what if she had fallen to the floor and lost the pregnancy. Another said, it is too risky and should never be done. Well, the doctors gave her clearance to run (yes at 8months and yes 800m).


28 year old Olympian and five-time U.S. national champion Alysia Montano ran an 800m race at the Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, California.


Alysia received a standing ovation after completing the race in 2 minutes, 32.13 seconds, 35 seconds slower than her personal best of 1:57.34, which she smashed back in 2010 in a race in Monaco.
"I've been running throughout my pregnancy and I felt really, really good during the whole process.' Alysia said after the race...

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