Building a Peaceful Telangana Through the Discipline of Sport
India’s first scientific institute dedicated to building endurance across all 33 districts in building a fitter Telangana.
To make Telangana the fittest state in India, by building endurance in 33 districts, preventing the rising trend of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart attacks and other lifestyle diseases.
Telangana Runners exists to prevent lifestyle disease before it starts. We believe endurance, not medicine, is the first line of defense against the diseases reshaping India’s health. Through advocacy, research, structured training, and community events, we are building a discipline of sport into the daily life of every district in Telangana, one runner, one village, one town at a time.
Founded by a Cardiac Rehab Physician
Dr Muralidar Babi, MBBS, MD (CMC Vellore), Cardiac Rehab Physician, is the founder of Telangana Runners. He also founded India’s first Advanced Physician Supervised Cardiac Rehab Centre in Hyderabad, a pioneering service that has already helped heart attack survivors and heart failure patients rebuild their endurance and return to recreational sport.
Working closely with survivors through primary and secondary prevention, he saw the same truth again and again, endurance is what stands between a person and a heart attack, whether it has already happened once or not at all. That conviction became a statewide mission. Telangana Runners exists to build that same endurance across all 33 districts of Telangana.
How we build endurance into everyday life
Advocacy
We work to make endurance a public priority, partnering with communities, institutions, and government to place fitness at the center of public health conversations.
Sports Research and Innovations
We study what actually works. From training methodology to technology, we build and test better ways to help people build endurance safely and sustainably, treating running not as a trend but as a science.
Workshops
We bring education grounded in evidence directly to communities, schools, and workplaces, teaching the physiology of endurance and the discipline it takes to build it.
Training
Structured, accessible programs that meet people where they are, whether a first time walker or a seasoned runner, building endurance step by step.
Events
Community runs across Telangana that turn training into shared experience, culture, and celebration, including our Sunday Morning Run (SMR), flagship Cardiac Rehab Run, and the statewide Telangana Marathon.
Where training becomes shared experience
Cardiac Rehab Run
Our flagship run on a single mission, to prevent early heart attacks through advocacy and by building endurance across Telangana.
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Telangana Marathon
Our statewide marathon carrying the discipline of endurance to 33 districts.
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Sunday Morning Run (SMR)
Our weekly community run held every Sunday across Telangana, open to all fitness levels, where training becomes a shared habit.
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