Running of the Bulls 2008 - San Fermin Day 1 - Vid 3

Please forgive the bad language. This was a very tense, testosterone driven moment in time.

Kojo and I ran with the bulls on the first day. The run occurs every morning for 10 days at 8 am during the festival of San Fermin. It began as a way of transporting cattle from one side of town to the other, then people started running with the cattle, then Ernest Hemmingway did it and wrote about it, then history was born.

They fire off 1 rocket to signal that the bull pen has been opened, then another rocket to signal that all the bulls have left the pen. At that point u begin to haul ass. Most adrenaline pumping moment of my life...

Its a 3/4 mile course that the bulls complete around 4 minutes and ends at the bull fighting ring, where all the bulls are sent into a pen, except 1 whose left out to be taunted by the croud. Once he is taken away a teenage bull with his horns taped is let loose to have some fun. Then its over.

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