As Larry says better is not taking personal risks, but you can always hide a mini gps tracker ($35) in your equipment, so police would have an easy&funny job, also make marks in your equipment (some hidden) and have gear's photographs and tracker pasword in the cloud, as phone can also be lost.
I'd use pepper spray only if you (or another person) are in serious danger and the spray allows you to run, not for defending your gear. If your environment is problematic, before using sprays, etc take a self defence seminar that it would tell you good safety recommendations, think that if there are more than one robber then surprise factor may work with the first one only. First is the personal safey of you and of people that are with you. Even if you are stronger you (or other with you) can lose a lot, your priorities are clear, a robber with abstinence syndrome has other priorities.
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