It's good that her self defence skills worked but sad that her self protection ones didn't. She noticed the guy looking at her yet still walked right past him within grabbing distance. She also failed to spot his mate hiding, hence the 'surprise' attack.
Lets be fair, i think she did pretty well. We don't know the terain so the other bad guy could have been well hidden. I'm also impressed on the amount of information she was able to remember about both men and the car.
Itake it that these guys weren't arrested at the time.