Early
on Monday morning, 1st Lt. Ashley Sorensen of the 303rd Explosive
Ordnance Disposal Battalion, 8th Military Police Brigade, 8th Theater
Sustainment Command, based out of Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, set the
new world record for running a mile while wearing a fully functional
bomb disposal suit. The suit weighs more than 75 pounds, and Sorenson
ran the mile in an impressive 11 minutes, 6 seconds.
Sorensen
broke the previous record by two minutes, and once reviewed by the
folks at Guinness World Records, she'll officially hold the title as the
fastest female one-mile run in an EOD bomb disposal suit. The male
record is 8 minutes, 5 seconds.
But,
for Sorensen, the record is about training, not vanity. "Whenever EOD
goes out in the bomb suits for a manual approach," she told Hawaii News
Now, "it's really important that we're able to work and sweat in the
suit and still be able perform, so making it a competition when we train
helps with that. Running a mile like this is definitely a challenge."
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