as minimising your risk of injury.Fell RunningA neat guide to the exhilarating experience of fell running.TriathlonSwimming, cycling and running - here's what you can expect from your first multi-sport experience.Cross-TrainingSpice up your weekly regime

-training The repetitive, unidirectional nature of running puts a huge strain on certain parts of your body. The more you run, the more your chance of becoming injured. But you can maintain your fitness while reducing your injury risk by simply integrating other sports

Hands up if you've never been injured. If your hand is in the air, you're in the lucky minority of triathletes who have never had to take time off training to recover from a sore calf, aching shoulder or throbbing knee.Triathlon is a great sport

Anderson and Liz Yelling - our Lucozade Sport Super Six quickly became a Triumphant Three as illness and injury struck our male marathon hopefuls. Read on to find out how Sue, Meg and Helen fared as they became more determined than ever to finish the Flora

wrenched your knee.—Christian Brookes, chartered physiotherapist and sports injury specialist

as the upper leg, with the result that pelvic and upper leg injuries may sometimes be indistinguishable and may often become confused. By virtue of their anatomy, hip joints allow a wide range of movement, not only forwards and backwards, outwards and inwards

back from my injury and winning the trials in 2011.The toughest point was rehab following my knee injury.I recovered with lots of therapy, physio and massage - sports massage that is, nothing too pampering! Also, by eating foods with healing properties

When you're sidelined by injury your natural reaction should be to cut back on calories until it's time to return to training - and burning energy. But the healing process demands fuel, too. "It's like fixing a house," says sports dietitian Cynthia

and sports-injury specialist

From nervous first-timers to injury-frustrated veterans, self-confessed plodders to sub-1:25 hopefuls, over the last few months our six Bupa Great North Run hopefuls have been sharing all their training highs and lows right here online