Canyon High School grad and seven-time national champion “Flower” Alysia Montaño is once again taking the track while pregnant, this time four months along, at Thursday’s USATF Outdoor Championships 800m race.

No stranger to racing pregnant, Montaño ran in the USATF national championship in 2014 eight months pregnant, and finished the 800m race in 2:32.13.

Montaño qualified for this year’s USATF Outdoor Championships 800m with a 2:00.20 finish in the 2016 Olympic Trials last July.

Montaño raced in the Millrose Games on February 11, her only race this year, when she achieved a personal best 500m time of 1:09.55.

At 31, Montaño is already a two-time Bronze medalist at the World Championship, six-time National Champion, and current NACAC record holder in the 4x800m among other accolades.

In a 2014 KHTS interview, Montaño commented on her infamous pregnant race stating she was “pretttttttttty pregnant,” and decided to race for several reasons.

“One is, we’re in 2014, people — I want women to recognize the strength that their own body holds,” Montaño said. “And not only for women, but the whole human race — to realize pregnancy is not an illness, it’s not a disease. And it’s health for a mommy to continue to exercise during a pregnancy. It promotes blood flow and it’s great for the baby.”

Furthermore, Montaño defended her choice to run pregnant by stating, “It’s like any other working woman, it just happens to be that I’m a professional runner. I have to go  back to work.”

In 2017, this idea continues to ring true for Montaño.