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Sensible Jogging Safety Tips - Ignore These at Your Peril

September 13th, 2007

Jogging is an extremely popular form of aerobic exercise. Unfortunately, we’ve all seen stories about joggers being mugged, assaulted, or worse. If you’d like to prevent yourself from becoming another statistic, take heed of these precautions.

1. Leave it Home

To make yourself a less desirable target, don’t carry valuables such as your wallet, watch, cell phone and jewelry (including your wedding ring) when running. Likewise, if you do like to jog to music, don’t carry a super-expensive radio or media player with you. If you aren’t carrying anything of value, thieves will have one less reason to choose you.

2. Safety in Numbers

Criminals prefer solitary victims. Jog with friends if possible. If you own a dog, take him along. The exercise is great for him, and it’s another problem for a would-be attacker. If you aren’t able to go jogging with other people…

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