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	<title>First-timer at San Femin</title>
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	<description>Daily blog of my first time at San Fermin.</description>
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		<title>Is it Wrong to Run with Bulls?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the last day of of the festivals of San Fermin.  The families are out in force, enjoying the traditional events of dancing giants, rural Basque sports and typical jotas (songs from Navarra).  The daytime San Fermin is such a contrast to the violence and risk of the bull runs and bullfights and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life, Death, Ritual and Bull</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the magnificent fireworks every night over the Ciudadela, this festival has been an explosion of exuberance.   And like the bulls at the end of their run, the pace of the festival is slightly slower; we’ve come to the last tramo of the Fiestas de San Fermin.   And like the bulls that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Ian Usher</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Rhodes
&#8220;And thirty years later that one day is coming.  That &#8216;one day&#8217; is tomorrow morning.&#8221;


On July 7th I caught up with Ian Usher of 100Goals100Weeks.com and talked to him about his goal number 49: Running with the Bulls in Pamplona.  Ian Usher is British, living in Australia for the past several years.  He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Fatal Run</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the second all-nighter I&#8217;ve spent walking the streets of this non-stop, week-long fiesta.  The pulsating, packed streets of of Pamplona never stop dancing.  With marching bands, street entertainers, a circus, music in every bar and concerts in every plaza, there is always something stimulating happening.
Yesterday evening a couple friends and I watched the bull [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Ran</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning at 8am I ran with the bulls.  Well, it&#8217;s more like I waited in a huge crowd of white and red and stewed in anticipation and tired nerves.  To add to the obvious tension one feels while waiting to run with wild, horned animals, I had been advised by my Spanish friend that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Encierro: a fast and clean run</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a late night of calimocho, chistorra and excellent music, I awoke after a few hours of sleep to see the first running of the bulls (encierro). Pamplona&#8217;s main newspaper, the Diario de Navarra, reports just four injuries at this morning&#8217;s 8am run, most of them at the very beginning of the course on Calle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiesta Begins!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I awoke to folk songs drifting up to my 5th floor apartment from the little plaza below.   I looked out to see a crowd of people sitting in front of the local bar &#8211; all dressed in white with red sashes (fajas) and red handkerchiefs (pañuelos) on their wrists.  Their loud singing over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bulls Arrive in Pamplona</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Pamplona's main newspaper, the Diario de Navarra, mentioned that the rest of the bulls are arriving today from all over Spain.  As I read the names and weights of the bulls, it made this whole bull running idea much more tangible.  One of the bulls is named "Amante" (nº 54, negro mulato) and weighs in at a healthy 595 kilos (for the non-metrically inclined, that's 1,312 pounds of rippling muscle).  Well, "Amante," I have news for you: you may think this run is all fun and games, but you don't know what I'm made of.  I have been training.  I may be 1,150 pounds lighter than you.  And it's true that I don't have sharpened, cylindrical weapons growing from my skull.  But I've got a brain and this blog - and from this public form I am informing all your white and red running targets that you exist.  I am telling them your name, your size and your number.  So, be warned "Amante," we are ready for you.]]></description>
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		<title>Calm Before the Storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expectation is in the air.  Last night I walked though the eerily quiet streets of Pamplona around 2am and imagined the transformation the city would undergo in a just 10 days.  Along the famous Calle Estafeta they have already erected most of the bull run barriers (vallados) and there are little paper signs along the [...]]]></description>
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