Sparring with Anna

Skrevet av Ingrid den 18.08.2009

This evening me and Anna Ingman were training together. We had five rounds of sparring. She is pretty tuff and strong and I had to keep my legs moving. It was really nice working with her.

Training camp on Bösøn, Stockholm

Skrevet av Ingrid den 12.08.2009

Last week we had a training camp in Oslo with the Swedish team. After two days with less training, we now continue the preparations for the European Championship in Sweden.
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Women’s boxing in the Olympics

Skrevet av Ingrid den 12.08.2009

Finally Women’s boxing is approved for the London 2012 Olympic games. It is still not settled which weight categories or how many competitors there will be in each weight class, but this will be decided soon.

My summer in Washington DC

Skrevet av Ingrid den 07.08.2009

This summer was spent in Washington DC. For two months I was working at the Buonanno Lab, National Institute of Health. Working at this professional lab was both a challenging and educational experience for me, and I am so grateful I got this chance.

Lets talk about the training first and then the shopping (restitution shopping).
Before I left, one of my great coaches Martin made me a very detailed training plan with two training bout’s every day (sometimes three, but that did not happen). So as you might understand this has absolutely not been a lazy summer. Of course it was very important to have a good running up to the European Champ this September.
Close to were I lived I found a training center, Fitness First, were I lifted weights (løfta skrot) at least four times a week. At this training center I also met a boxing coach, Bruce. You might say he found me though, walking around with a Norwegian boxing team t-shirt. He recommended me to train boxing at Knox Boxing in Adams Morgan. Unfortunately there were no active girls in this club but it was ok to do the bag work and all the other things that did not included sparring. Bruce also fixed some sparring with a professional girl boxer, Jennifer Salinas. She was tuff and we had some good workouts together. Bruce was very nice and very passionate about boxing and helped me a lot.

I did not get many visits from my mother country (moderlandet), only one. Cathrine and her fabulous family took me out eating pancakes and also out shopping at an outlet store outside DC. Besides this I was not much outside the red line or the J2 bus area.
I will recommend future Washington visitors to go to Montgomery mall (J2 bus end station), shopping in Georgetown, hiking in Potomac, party at Rock Bottom and try the margaritas at this Mexican place in Bethesda. I had three margaritas here and that was the record in the Buonanno lab..