Risks and Benefits in Practicing Trail Running

Abstract

Although it predates modern athletics, trail running is a sport branch recently introduced in the competitional calendar of the Romanian Athletics Federation, in the context of which at the international level it is frequently discussed introducing this sport branch into the Olympic Games. Nationally, we currently assist in the promotion of a large number of competitions as well as a continuous growth of the indicator of participation and interest of collateral factors. These unique types of competitional events create premises for new research directions that concern both internal and external phenomena of the specific instruction process, moreover as the different ways of approach, less concerned nationally and internationally. This article aims to surprise through interviews and processed pieces of information of the specific literature, positive as well as negative aspects that are contested by athletes and coaches approaches in trail running competitions and based on these aspects I highlight in a holistic manner, necessary synergies from the perspective of factors and training methods on the following sequences: competition, recovery, prevention and/ or regeneration, depending on each case. I consider that highlighting masturbatory factors as well as benefic aspects that can be associated with practicing trail running, will increase the efficiency in the coaching process, being reflected in the improvement of the performance level and in diminishing risks that concern body integrity of its practices.