OH, DARN

Oh, well. And I was so looking forward to displaying my athletic prowess. Flying home tomorrow.

FRESH OFF THE PRESS!!

While some residents of San Ramón were anxious to host the first Pamplona style of running of the bulls in Costa Rica, others weren't so much, forcing an action of constitutionality and an order of the Ministerio de Salud to ensure public safety.

The running of the bulls was scheduled to start on Friday.

However, this morning, the ministra de Salud, María Luisa Ávila, notified the Festejos San Ramón 2010 that the bull run is off.

The ministra said her inspectors found that the bulls would be too close to the public which could result in injury.

Although the Festejos had co-ordinated the event with the Policía de Tránsito to close off the streets and had erected barricades to protect the public from the bulls, and the regulation that people could run only alongside and to the rear, but not the front of the bulls, the event will not take place.

The festival of San Fermin, or the Pamplona bull running as it's more commonly known outside Spain is a tradition that occurs in July every year, where thousands of people congregate in the square awaiting the mayor's official announcement that the fiestas have begun, a rocket is launched and the partying begins.

The Pamplona encierro is the most popular running of the bulls in Spain. .Injuries are common to the participants who may be gored or trampled.