Strategy 1
Keep Walking Outdoors, But Be Seen
Light colors, reflective striping, reflective fabrics and lights can keep you from tangling with a car. If you must wear black, you should add reflective striping or wear a reflective safety vest.
When to Glow: You should wear visibility-enhancing clothes and accessories from an hour before sunset until an hour after sunrise.
What Should Glow: Your walking outfit should provide reflective striping all along your body line to ensure you are seen and recognized as a human. A single patch is not enough. Look for jackets and pants that have a reflective stripe down the length of the sleeves and legs.
Head to Toes: Look for a cap or headband that is reflective. Most running shoes have reflective patches.
Best - a Vest: The best bet is to wear a reflective safety vest, available in the bike section of most sporting goods stores or at running stores. These are specially rated to be visible at a distance to drivers, and they also have bright orange elements to help for visibility at twilight. These mesh vests are completely breathable and add no weight.
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Fashionable - But Reflective: Several fabrics weave reflective thread into the design. By day you are wearing a slimming black or nicely patterned ensemble. But under the headlights you are all aglow. illumiNITE™ is one such technology, and is used to produce fleece vests, jackets, windbreakers, pants, shorts and headwear.
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• Tip 3: Road Rules
• Tip 4: Stranger Danger
• Tip 5: Shift Schedule
• Tip 6: Indoor Trails
• Tip 7: Treadmills
• Tip 8: Fun Night Events
