{"id":3562,"date":"2016-07-29T22:23:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T16:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2020-03-12T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T06:07:25","slug":"hyderabad-run-report-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/hyderabad-run-report-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"GHR Hyderabad Run Report 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Go Heritage Runs, we plan run vacations at <em>towns<\/em> across India with scenic\u00a0sites of cultural and natural heritage significance. Go Heritage Run &#8211; Hyderabad, held\u00a0on Sunday, the 24th of July deviated from that script* in that we chose to bring our concept of fun runs to\u00a0a <em>large city\u00a0<\/em>with the run starting and culminating at the 390-year old Taramati Baradari.<\/p>\n<p>Our run in Hyderabad intended to take residents of Hyderabad to a lesser visited part of town and introduce them to the centuries-old cultural legacy of\u00a0the founders of the city to fitness enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Planning and Promotion:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Having witnessed\u00a0quite a\u00a0positive response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/historic-hyderabad-run-report\/\">free test event<\/a>\u00a0along a nearly identical run route in 2015, we were keen on planning a full-fledged event for 2016 in the lead-up to AHM 2016 and our partners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyderabadrunners.com\">Hyderabad Runners<\/a>\u00a0quickly came on board with the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Hyderabad Runners\u00a0spread the word among the running community in and around the twin cities. and our good friends at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ikeva.com\/\">iKeva<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intach.org\">INTACH <\/a>also\u00a0promoted the event among their communities and networks.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Design Collateral:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Our run poster, run t-shirt, finisher medal and certificates and bibs were influenced by Qutb Shahi architectural elements and colors. The geometric floral patterns in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/hyderabad-2016-run-t-shirt\/\">run T-shirt<\/a>\u00a0were inspired by Persian windows and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/hyderabad-finisher-medal\/\">finisher medal<\/a> is a laser-cut engraving of the front view of the Baradari complete with its doorways and ornate Islamic cornices.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Run Weekend:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Over seven hundred\u00a0participants ran across the 5K, 10K and 21K at Go Heritage Run Hyderabad\u00a0last Sunday. And a few who were preparing\u00a0for the Hyderabad Marathon ran the 21K &#8211; and then some\u00a0more\u00a0depending on their individual training plans. \u00a0The run commenced at the Taramati Baradari,\u00a0a 12 doorway-ed palatial structure built by Abdullah Qutb Shah, the Seventh Sultan of Golconda, in 1625 to celebrate Taramati, one of his courtesans, and due to the change of run route, participants ran\u00a0past the Army Golf Course and Parade Grounds before returning to the\u00a0Baradari.<\/p>\n<p>While the Qutb Shahi Tombs wasn&#8217;t on the altered run route, all participants still got to experience its beauty on the post-run heritage walk and interpretation session conducted in association with The Aga Khan Foundation and INTACH Telangana. The Qutb Shahi Tombs is on the <a href=\"http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/tentativelists\/5573\/\">UNESCO World Heritage Site Tentative List<\/a>\u00a0and is a must-see for most\u00a0tourists visiting the city. The Heritage Walk leaders\u00a0described the lime conservation process underway at the tomb sites, the due diligence and importance of selecting the right conservation methods, the excavation processes currently taking place, how existing water systems at the property are being rejuvenated to make the area self-sustaining and the interpretation discussions in progress at the site. Linking the site back to the Taramati Baradari, he also drew attention to the fact that while the Qutb Shahi tombs were the burial site of the entire Qutb Shahi dynasty, they were also the burial site of the royal courtesan sisters Taramati and Premamati &#8211; indicating the importance and status the position of courtesan implied.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Our Partners:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Our thanks and gratitude to everyone at the Hyderabad Runners, INTACH Telangana, and The Aga Khan Foundation for making this run and the post-run heritage walk possible. Special thanks also to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ikeva.com\/\">iKeva<\/a> and its\u00a0tenants for sharing their co-working space with us on Saturday at\u00a0bib and t-shirt distribution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Due to a last minute eventuality, an unplanned deviation from the script occurred on Run day &#8211;\u00a0The original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/hyderabad-run-routes\/\">run routes<\/a>\u00a0intended to traverse the Qutb Shahi Tombs and the outer periphery of the Golconda Fort and then return to the Taramati Baradari. The local authorities recommended against this route and we had to plan an alternate route. Better planning could have resolved this sooner. Our apologies to the runners. And we hope the post-run heritage walk at the Qutb Shahi Tombs made up for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of the run was two-fold: Introduce the centuries-old cultural legacy of the founders of the city of Hyderabad to fitness enthusiasts and Plan an event that Hyderabad&#8217;s running community can use to train for the upcoming Airtel Hyderabad Marathon slated for the end of August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2529,"featured_media":3576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,557,176,89,61],"tags":[263,262,417,197,69,386,68,91,379],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GHR Hyderabad Run Report 2016 - Go Heritage Runs - Run, Fun, Travel - Run-vacations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Runners and heritage enthusiasts from across the twin cities ran with us in Hyderabad in July. 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