{"id":14501,"date":"2011-07-26T11:39:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T11:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=14501"},"modified":"2011-07-26T11:42:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T11:42:36","slug":"paul-marshall%e2%80%99s-blog-%e2%80%93-pre-season-preparations-from-our-friends-talking-rugby-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/paul-marshall%e2%80%99s-blog-%e2%80%93-pre-season-preparations-from-our-friends-talking-rugby-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Marshall\u2019s Blog \u2013 Pre Season Preparations ~ From Our Friends @ Talking Rugby Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was rudely awoken by my alarm clock at 6:30am on Monday 20th June.  In a dazed desperation I turned it off and then remembered \u2013 it was the first day of pre-season training and I had to get up, get breakfast and get on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Four weeks of holidays came to an abrupt ending that morning and routine was soon to be resumed.  I had enjoyed time in Florida with a few friends including team mates Chris Henry, Stephen Ferris and Darren Cave and then a week in the sun, in Fuerteventura with other friends including team masseur Kyle Alexander.  The holidays mainly consisted of theme\/water parks, sunshine and golf so it was both exciting and relaxing when it needed to be!  My eyes remained shut when on most of the roller-coasters in Universal Studios but thankfully I had peer pressure from my team mates that I had to at least venture onto a few of them\u2026and I successfully faced some of my fears, having never been on a proper roller coaster before&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>For the full Story on www.talkingrugbyunion.com <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingrugbyunion.co.uk\/pro12\/paul-marshalls-blog-pre-season-preparations\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosportsdirect.com\/index.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9533\" title=\"Click Here For Eurosports Direct E-Commerce Website\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/eurosports.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"943\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was rudely awoken by my alarm clock at 6:30am on Monday 20th June. In a dazed desperation I turned it off and then remembered \u2013 it was the first day of pre-season training and I had to get up, get breakfast and get on the road. Four weeks of holidays came to an abrupt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5722,5931,5983,6198,5930,6197,6087,6199,3959,5209,5932,5933],"class_list":["post-14501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-blog","tag-friends","tag-from","tag-marshalls","tag-our","tag-paul","tag-pre","tag-preparations","tag-rugby","tag-season","tag-talking","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14505,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14501\/revisions\/14505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}