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.”
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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