摘要：Aim. The practice of trail running, compared to most athletic disciplines such as middle-distance, longdistance and longest running races, are considered to carry some risks related to the corporal integrity of theathletes. It exists a sum of convergent factors, both external and internal, that expose the practicant to differentinjuries that vary from the gravity point of view. Regardless of the physical conditions suffered, it yieldsnegatively towards the stability of the athlet's in question fitness level, on one side due to the necessary recoveryperiod of his biological integrity - given by the injury itself - and on the other hand due to the length of timenecessary to his biological rehabilitation at the ante factum level of training.This study, based on information taken from international bibliographic sources and on adoptedmethodologies in the national practice of sports training, specific to running disciplines in athletics, proposes tooffer a theoretical and methodological syntesis towards the groups of injuries that an athlet who practices trailrunning could suffer, as well as the relevance and irrelevance of prevention or/ and recovery measures that arefound in the specific training, led by romanian coaches.Conclusions. The frequency and gravity of injuries that are reported by executing trail running, requiresthe adoption of special measures, through which to intervene in a correct way and timely manner towardsmaintaining optimal physical integrity of athletes, throughout the year of training. In this context, there are avariety of kinetotherapeutic procedures that can be used preventively, case in which, through the lack of injuries,the training process is not disrupted and in methodological conditions properly planned and implemented, canact in the direction of stabilising the fitness level, in accordance to the level of competences each athlet obtainedat a certain moment.
