Henna Rustami On Growing Up As A First-Generation Afghan-American Runner + Going From An Unknown to Ivy League Champion
The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show
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🗓️ 15 January 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
To start off the year, we wanted to introduce you to one of the kindest people me and my new co-host (Ryan Welsh) met in 2019. Henna Rustami's name might be familiar if you’re an Ivy League alum because she was a Heps champion. But before she rose to some prominence on the college scene at Columbia, she grew up on Long Island to an immigrant family who left a war-ravaged Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Doug Binder of Dye Stat wrote a great story on her in 2017 as she was setting her sights on some school records during the indoor season: https://www.runnerspace.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=44531&do=news&news_id=467103
Henna is one of the members of the Brooklyn Track Club in New York City and in addition to balancing her workload as a second-year law student, she’s not giving up on lowering those PRs from college. She wants to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Track Trials and serve as an inspiration for girls who look like her since some role models were lacking when she was growing up. Henna is awesome and we convinced her to join Instagram after we stopped recording.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of the Citius Mag podcast network is brought to you by The Feed. |
| 0:06.0 | A quick second to get the word out about the Feed's club discount program. |
| 0:10.0 | So in addition to working with Citius on continuing to push out these podcasts, |
| 0:13.8 | the Feed is working with running clubs and teams all across the country to provide discounts |
| 0:17.9 | on all of their inventory from nutrition to recovery products. |
| 0:22.1 | Any running club is eligible. I run with the Brooklyn |
| 0:25.0 | Track Club here in New York City. They're one of the teams involved. We have more |
| 0:29.1 | than 200 people, but a squad can just be you and two college buddies who run together on weekends. |
| 0:35.7 | You guys count and are totally eligible to participate. |
| 0:38.8 | Club Northwest, San Francisco Roadrunners, Wazel's Voli team. |
| 0:42.2 | These are just some of the notable teams |
| 0:43.6 | that have signed up for the program. |
| 0:45.4 | Schools can do it too on the college and the high school level. |
| 0:49.0 | Members of clubs or schools who sign up |
| 0:52.0 | for the program will get 15% off all of their orders on the feed and they will provide each school with a customized landing page and a unique discount code to that school or club. |
| 1:02.0 | So if your team joins, they will also get discount code to that school or club. |
| 1:02.6 | So if your team joins, they will also get priority access to the Feed's awesome |
| 1:07.3 | nutrition coaches who are always there to answer questions about anything that is in their |
| 1:11.6 | inventory and how you can implement it into your |
| 1:14.2 | training. So if you're interested, email Riley Masters. His email is Riley at |
| 1:19.8 | the Feed.com to get your team working with the best resource for athletes. |
| 1:25.0 | So thanks to the Feed for doing an amazing job of sponsoring this podcast |
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