My joints have spent years being abused by excessive pounding, and belonging to an owner who, in her youth, thought she was invincible and never let her injuries heal completely before roughing it out again. I am also accident prone, and when I run, I make sure the music doesn’t just play, it rocks my ears.

I’m an accident waiting to happen, I’ll admit. Whether I’m running on the pavement along the roads or around Bedok Reservoir, I’m bound to either get myself in an accident.

Believe me, I do try to prevent these things from happening, like going slower, or not running at all, or even not having the music pounding in my ears. But what am I doing to do if I don’t run, and why should I run if I can’t push myself? Worse still, how to run when I can’t listen to what motivates me to go faster and further?!?

I can’t prevent accidents from happening to me, but at least when it happens, strangers and paramedics will know *exactly* who to call and important things like my blood type, allergies, etc.

Which are what goes on an ID band, so if the extreme ever happens to me when I’m running (like collapse from, I don’t know, too much of the good music coursing through my veins), at least I won’t be just another statistic, or one of those Jane Does lying unconscious in the hospital.

And thats good to know for every runner, isn’t it?