So I wanna run with the bulls......

[Thetexashammer 1062]

31 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

 

Josh Norman wins at life. 

[Zepol87 9191]

That's very cool

[luke duke 6414]

Looks like Bobby Hill is all growed up.

[wood 11268]

Damn. 

https://nypost.com/2019/09/02/bull-nearly-decapitates-man-during-fatal-attack-in-spain/

[Blotto 23579]

Lulz at the bull spinning around with the "wtf"

[High Plains Drifter 11052]

Just saw this thread.

 

I ran about 15 years ago. So, YMMV.

Stay in San Sebastian, leave all your shit in your room there, catch a bus to Iruna (Pamplona) the afternoon before the day you want to run. Seems like I remember the ride was only an hour or so.   These buses run constantly during San Fermin. Stay up all night getting fucking hammered, people watching, hooking up, maybe sleep for an hour or two in a park somewhere. If you can swing it, get there on the first day, when the festival actually begins.

It gets surprisingly cold at night but just suck it up because you don't want to hassle with carrying a bunch of shit around. Don't take anything with you other than an ID and cash. Buy your return ticket as soon as you get there and stash it in your sock or someplace safe.

The day before, scope out the route-- its very short-only a quarter mile maybe?. Get into the staging area well before the start (which is at 8 am iirc) because they close it off once it gets full. Once the run starts, you can't get off the course until it ends at the coliseum. Be sure to wear the traditional white shirt and pants with a red bandana, or the locals might trip you. I bought a cheap shirt and pants and bandana at some tourist trap place the day before and just wore then over my normal clothes during the run. I ditched the pants after the run, but kept the shirt.

Wear good shoes. The cobble stones will be wet and slick. Be careful of tripping and watch what the fuck you are doing. Tripping or twisting an ankle on a curb, cobblestone, or another runner is very possible. If you do fall, stay down and the bulls will just hop over you. Try to stand up or crawl away in front of a pissed off bull and you will get hooked and tossed.

The run ends at the coliseum. You will enter through the gates with the bulls, and mill around with the bulls (and some steers) until the bulls can be herded into their pens. Once the last bull is penned, it ends.  The coliseum part felt even more dangerous than the actual run, imo.

After the run, drink a beer to calm the adrenaline shakes, get back on the bus and return to San Sebastian. In about an hour you can be passed out on a beach sleeping off the hangover. Repeat for up to 8 days.

 

 

[MNLonghornFUKM 8822]

That sounds like a horrible 24 hours but very interesting read nonetheless lol

[wood 11268]

Nope.

[TankedBevo 2485]

13 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

Just saw this thread.

 

I ran about 15 years ago. So, YMMV.

Stay in San Sebastian, leave all your shit in your room there, catch a bus to Iruna (Pamplona) the afternoon before the day you want to run. Seems like I remember the ride was only an hour or so.   These buses run constantly during San Fermin. Stay up all night getting fucking hammered, people watching, hooking up, maybe sleep for an hour or two in a park somewhere. If you can swing it, get there on the first day, when the festival actually begins.

It gets surprisingly cold at night but just suck it up because you don't want to hassle with carrying a bunch of shit around. Don't take anything with you other than an ID and cash. Buy your return ticket as soon as you get there and stash it in your sock or someplace safe.

The day before, scope out the route-- its very short-only a quarter mile maybe?. Get into the staging area well before the start (which is at 8 am iirc) because they close it off once it gets full. Once the run starts, you can't get off the course until it ends at the coliseum. Be sure to wear the traditional white shirt and pants with a red bandana, or the locals might trip you. I bought a cheap shirt and pants and bandana at some tourist trap place the day before and just wore then over my normal clothes during the run. I ditched the pants after the run, but kept the shirt.

Wear good shoes. The cobble stones will be wet and slick. Be careful of tripping and watch what the fuck you are doing. Tripping or twisting an ankle on a curb, cobblestone, or another runner is very possible. If you do fall, stay down and the bulls will just hop over you. Try to stand up or crawl away in front of a pissed off bull and you will get hooked and tossed.

The run ends at the coliseum. You will enter through the gates with the bulls, and mill around with the bulls (and some steers) until the bulls can be herded into their pens. Once the last bull is penned, it ends.  The coliseum part felt even more dangerous than the actual run, imo.

After the run, drink a beer to calm the adrenaline shakes, get back on the bus and return to San Sebastian. In about an hour you can be passed out on a beach sleeping off the hangover. Repeat for up to 8 days.

 

 

Much appreciated 

[choripan 790]

Fourth time at the festival, and I ran today and yesterday for my fourth and fifth runs. I'm in the light blue shirt and my BIL is over my left shoulder and behind me. Dropped my newspaper so I had to touch a bull with my bare hand today. The day before, I was able to catch 3 bulls with my newspaper. I rate today's run first (bare hand touch) and yesterday's third. Second place was my very first run, when I entered the arena between two groups of bulls when they'd split up earlier, and the crowd (Like 10k+? Think a gladiator looking arena) was going buckwild and I came out of the tunnel into the arena.

I also got tripped up in a pile up ahead of my and have road rash on my face, arm, and knee. Today was my first injury in 5 runs over the 4 times I've been to the fiesta.

I will be back if I'm in W. Europe in early July, like now, but wouldn't make a special trip for it  BIL is a big Louisiana homer/Mardi Gras guy and says the fiesta surrounding everything is better than Mardi Gras. Really, the fiesta is great with fireworks and concerts every night, brass bands in the street, drunken revelry (but not threatening dbag drunkenness, per my wife), and tons of other surprises you just kinda wander into.

Tag me if you ever want advice. 👍

[CycleTex87 2981]

Is that a female in the pink shirt?

[choripan 790]

2 hours ago, CycleTex87 said:

Is that a female in the pink shirt?

Nope, just a blond guy with long hair. 

And the dumb jabroni that kept cutting people off.

(My wife ran with me in 2012, though)

[CycleTex87 2981]

Upper right corner of the photo definitely female.