One of the many times when a person is out on the road in a potentially dangerous situation is when they are jogging. Let’s say that your plan is to get up early in the morning and get a run in before you have to leave for work.

You wake up before dawn, get dressed and head out. As you are running you commit your first mistake. You have on a walkman or an MP3 player which means that you can not hear what is happening around you. This drops your level of alertness and capabilities of protecting yourself from dangerous situations.

Now, you are at risk in a number of ways. What you do not notice is the car that is shadowing you. This car is coming up behind you, following you down the path and you have no idea that they are even there.

If you were paying attention, though, you would know exactly what to do and what you need to react to. For example, you would have heard the car approach and turned to see that they were indeed shadowing you. You can know react in the right manner, before the driver even has the time to do anything to you.

To react in the proper way in this situation, turn your body around and run back into the direction that you came from, avoiding the passenger doors of the car. This way, if the attacker does want to come after you using his car, he has to turn the car around and then pursue you. That takes time and enough time for you to get out of there.

If the person gets out of the car, use the methods we’ve described for hurting them so that you can then get out of the potential problem. Get as far away from the car as you can because stepping foot inside of it means that you are likely not to come back out safely.