1 - DON'T WEAR HEADSETS. Use your ears to be aware of your surroundings. Using headphones, you lose the use of an important sense: your hearing.
2 - Always stay alert and aware of what's going on around you. The more aware you are, the less vulnerable you are.
3 - Carry a cell phone or change for a phone call. Know the locations of call boxes and telephones along your regular route.
4 - Trust your intuition about a person or an area. React on your intuition and avoid a person or situation if you're unsure. If something tells you a situation is not "right", it isn't.
5 - Alter or vary your running route pattern; run in familiar areas if possible. In unfamiliar areas, such as while traveling, contact a local RRCA club or running store. Know where open businesses or stores are located.
6 - Run with a partner. Run with a dog.
7 - Write down or leave word of the direction of your run. Tell friends and family of your favorite running routes.
8 - Avoid unpopulated areas, deserted streets, and overgrown trails. Especially avoid unlit areas, especially at night. Run clear of parked cars or bushes.
9 - Carry identification or write your name, phone number, and blood type on the inside sole of your running shoe. Include any medical information. Don't wear jewelry.
10 - Ignore verbal harassment. Use discretion in acknowledging strangers. Look directly at others and be observant, but keep your distance and keep moving.
11 - Run against traffic so you can observe approaching automobiles.
12 - Wear reflective material if you must run before dawn or after dark.
13 - Practice memorizing license tags or identifying characteristics of strangers.
14 - Carry a noisemaker and/or OC (pepper) spray. Get training in self-defense and the use of pepper spray.
15 - CALL POLICE IMMEDIATELY if something happens to you or someone else, or you notice anyone out of the ordinary. It is important to report incidents immediately.
To help you on your way here are some points to help you
use the correct sports bra. http://www.runnersworld.ltd.uk/womenstips.htm
A neglected part of women's apparel is a sports bra. You would not dream of
running in a pair of ill-fitting shoes would you?. You need a sports bra which
is not only your size, but one which also geared to give you maximum support
in your chosen sporting activity.
Women running
http://www.timeoutdoors.com/run/advice/default.asp
Tips on everything from women-specific running shoes and nutritional advice
to running during pregnancy
Tips for women with amenorrhea
http://www.copacabanarunners.net/indinggeral.html?http://www.copacabanarunners.net/iameno.html
Athletic women are generally looked upon as being fit and healthy. But a look
from the inside out shows a different story. Approximately 20% of active women
are unhealthy to the point they stop having regular menstrual periods. This
condition is called amenorrhea
Womens Exersice Network
http://www.womensexercisenetwork.com/running.html
For those runners out there with dogs, I just found a very cute store called
Your Active Pet. Among other things, they have specialty and hands-free leashes.
What fun.
UPDATED 23/5/2005
http://www.fast-women.com/news.html
Source for women's elite distance running. Features interviews, athlete biographies,
the latest news, message board, and links.
http://www.girlsontherun.org/
A training program for a 3.1 mile event. Site includes, media items, a kids
section, contacts, fees, and merchandise.
http://www.colacoll.edu/edenslibrary/jane/team.htm
Provides historical and biographical information concerning the 1922 First International
Track Meet for Women and the US team mates who participated.
http://www.olympicwomen.co.uk/
Dedicated to women sporting pioneers. Includes in-depth history, stories and
statistics of women in the Olympics
http://www.drmirkin.com/archive/6635.html
Online health report from Dr. Gabe Mirkin on common injury of women runners
-- stress fractures.
http://www.rrca.org/publicat/rrcasaft.htm
Information source devoted to the woman runner. Includes product reviews, race
features, message boards and links to training articles.
http://www.time-to-run.com/women/
Provides articles on motivation, femininity and running, how to fit running
and racing into one's schedule, and tips on clothing.
http://www.philvanes.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/yesthosepictures.htm
FANCY MAKING A CALENDER these lady runners did it.