diff --git a/src/skelcast/experiments/distributed.py b/src/skelcast/experiments/distributed.py
index 0be6f70..9fa2111 100644
--- a/src/skelcast/experiments/distributed.py
+++ b/src/skelcast/experiments/distributed.py
@@ -1,9 +1,36 @@
+import torch
+from torch.utils.data import DataLoader, Dataset
 from torch.utils.data.distributed import DistributedSampler
 from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel
 from torch.distributed import init_process_group, destroy_process_group
 
+from skelcast.models import SkelcastModule
 from skelcast.experiments import RUNNERS
 
 @RUNNERS.register_module()
 class DistributedRunner:
-    pass
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+    
+    def __init__(self,
+                 train_set: Dataset,
+                 val_set: Dataset,
+                 train_batch_size: int,
+                 val_batch_size: int,
+                 block_size: int,
+                 model: SkelcastModule,
+                 optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer = None,) -> None:
+        
+        self.train_set = train_set
+        self.val_set = val_set
+        self.train_batch_size = train_batch_size
+        self.val_batch_size = val_batch_size
+        self.block_size = block_size
+        self.model = model
+        self.optimizer = optimizer
+        self.device = torch.device('cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu')
+        self.model = self.model.to(self.device)
+        self.train_sampler = DistributedSampler(self.train_set)
+        self.val_sampler = DistributedSampler(self.val_set)
+        self.train_loader = DataLoader(self.train_set, batch_size=self.train_batch_size, sampler=self.train_sampler)
+        self.val_loader = DataLoader(self.val_set, batch_size=self.val_batch_size, sampler=self.val_sampler)
+        self.model = DistributedDataParallel(self.model, device_ids=[self.device])
+        
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