Who Wants To Run with the Bulls?
Some of you might remember a post I wrote at the end of last year about goals for 2010. My primary goal for the year was to drop about 50 pounds, and my reward for doing so would be running with the bulls in Pamplona Spain in July. So far, I've dropped about 20 pounds, and I'm really looking forward to the run.
A couple of my buddies have decided to run with me, and I got to thinking that it might be cool to extend the invitation to WSO readers. It could be a once-in-a-lifetime type experience, and it might be a lot of fun to put a bunch of douchey finance types in front of a couple dozen enraged bulls. If nothing else, it might be good resume filler and something to talk about with interviewers who will no doubt be jealous.
NOTICE: This is in no way, shape, or form endorsed by Patrick or Wall Street Oasis; so when one of you half-sissies gets gored by an angry bull don't start screaming for a lawyer. If you're interested in maybe putting something together, contact me offline at [email protected]. I'm talking about man shit here, gentlemen.
In case you're wondering what you might be getting yourself into, this video should get you fired up:






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Holy shit at the guy crossing
Holy shit at the guy crossing the road!!1
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"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcom
nothing is better than seeing
nothing is better than seeing mother nature get vengeance
The guy crossing the road got
The guy crossing the road got TOSSED by that bull.....
If you like animals getting
If you like animals getting revenge videos, this is the best one ever. This bull leaps into the stands and starts fucking people up:
Why would anyone want to put
Why would anyone want to put themselves through this. Lose 50 pounds: sure, run Ironman: maybe, run with 1000lb monstrocities that actively seek to punish you: doesn't seem like much of a reward for losing 50 pounds. Hell, I'd put on more weight...
Fair enough. Some people just
Fair enough. Some people just don't get it.
I might actually take you up
I might actually take you up on this, but only if you put on those 20lbs. you lost and then some. I don't need you outpacing me when there's a wild animal on our tails.
If it makes you feel any
If it makes you feel any better, one of the buddies joining me is going about 275 these days. In the interest of full disclosure, though, he's the type that would throw you between him and the bulls without a second thought.
Holy crap this looks like
Holy crap this looks like fun. Consider that less than .01% of people who run with the bulls actually get injured... The odds are like playing a reverse lottery, where only a lucky few end up losing. But everyone gets to say they ran with the bulls at the end of the day.
Wall Street leaders now understand that they made a mistake, one born of their innocent and trusting nature. They trusted ordinary Americans to behave more responsibly than they themselves ever would, and these ordinary Americans betrayed their trust.
hehe "bull market"... let's
hehe "bull market"...
let's make this an annual tradition and wrestle a bear next year
I've run with the bulls, and
I've run with the bulls, and it doesn't *have* to be as crazy as it sounds. You can be in one of 3 different groups:
The "easy" group, which is the furthest away from the bulls starting point. Any tourist can do this.
The "medium" group, this is the group I chose, and there are lots of places to duck and hide. Still, you need to be able to run.
And finally, the "absolutely insane" group, which starts closest to the bulls. Pure madness.
Don't worry Uncle Eddie, I'll
Don't worry Uncle Eddie, I'll run with the bulls with you. Only if we go in the "absolutely insane" group though. We'll go to the loony bin together, I don't give a fuck.
Here's one Spaniard who's
Here's one Spaniard who's never done this in Pamplona.
Sometimes we spend a few days of our summers (or rather, when I was still a student) in a small town in the east coast of Spain. The local tradition there is to do the same (though the town is tiny), and the bull's horns wear two round caskets that are lit up with fire. It's a younger bull. It's a fun one to run in.
Another town that my cousins go to have a bull run in which the grand finale is at the town's pier - if the bull is catching up to you, you can just jump off the side of the pier into the Mediterranean. The best part is when the bull figures out just a little too late that there's an end to the pier.... and skids off and lands in the water, with everyone else.
MonkeyInHumanSuit wrote: Only
Only if we go in the "absolutely insane" group though.
Trust me, bro. That's the only group I'm interested in...
I like what Edmundo Braverman
I like what Edmundo Braverman brings to this forum with his market knowledge, but I will have to pass up on this.
i've been to pamplona for
Interesting. When is it in
The festival is July 6-14,
Monkeyinhumansuit I nominate
hm i will be getting my
Your Compostela? Shit, dude,
ah, edmundo braverman, i
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