Get ready to go that extra 2,640 feet.

After months of rumors, the Air Force confirmed on Wednesday that a new service-wide physical fitness test will include a 2-mile timed run. The service also said Airmen will take the test twice per year, up from just once currently.

Under the service’s current PT test, airmen must run 1.5 miles. Task & Purpose first reported in June that the Air Force was considering requiring airmen to run longer for the test and make it twice a year.

Although airmen will still have the option to do the High Aerobic Multi-Shuttle Run, or HAMR – in which airmen must repeatedly run between two points 20 meters apart at an increasingly faster pace – as an alternate exercise on the PT test, they must complete the 2-mile run at least once a year, according to the Air F

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