 A reveller falls in front of Jose Escolar fighting bulls during the second running of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Saturday, July 8, 2017. Revellers from around the... (Associated Press) 
 
 A reveller falls in front of Jose Escolar fighting bulls during the second running of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Saturday, July 8, 2017. Revellers from around the world flock to Pamplona every year to take part in the eight days of the running of the bulls. (AP Photo/Alvaro... (Associated Press) 
 
 PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) — After five gorings on the first two days of this year's San Fermin festival, officials in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona said Sunday's third running of the bulls was quick and resulted in only minor injuries. The bull that led the pack thrust its horn into Hillmann's buttocks before flipping him onto the street. “At the last second, he shot me straight up in the air. “I walked to the medics.” 
 
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 At first, he says, he didn’t even know he had been gored because his pants were intact after the animal had somehow pulled down his pants and rammed its horn through his yellow underwear into a lower part of his backside. Hillmann's wound was less severe than those of a 22-year-old American who also was gored on Saturday. The regional government of Navarra said that four men, three Spaniards and one Frenchman, needed to be treated at a nearby hospital for minor injuries caused by knocks and falls. Over the first two days of the festival, four Americans and a Spaniard were gored during the daily bull runs. The bulls completed the 930-yard (850-meter) cobbled-street course in just over four minutes — well over the average of three minutes — because one bull broke away from the rest and turned around. It’s just who I am.” 
 
 Hillmann was more seriously injured during the event in 2014 when a bull gored him twice in the thigh, through one side of his leg and then the other. Stan Olszewski/SOSKIphoto 
 
 Hillmann said his initial inspiration to run with the bulls was sparked after he read vivid depictions of bullfighting and bull running in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.
– An American gored two times already while running with the bulls in Spain is willing to risk a third time, People reports. Author Bill Hillmann was living his Ernest Hemingway fantasy in northern Spain on Saturday when a bull gored his buttocks and tossed him in the air. The Chicago man hit the ground, looked back, "and he was just on me,” Hillmann tells People. "At the last second, he shot me straight up in the air. The horns just went in in a really weird way." As the 1,200-pound beast named Sentido stormed away along the narrow streets of Pamplona, Hillmann says he didn't feel "piercing pain" and managed to pick himself up and walk to find help. He didn't realize he'd been gored until "the medics pulled my pants down and there was blood everywhere." Hillmann, 35, spent 36 hours in the hospital but vowed to run with the bulls again on Monday. "I’m a daredevil at heart. It’s just who I am," he says. The last time Hillmann, who has run with the bulls at the annual San Fermin festival for 12 years, caught the wrong end of a horn was in 2014. That goring badly tore up a leg. "The first time, I wasn't walking for a week," he tells the AP. There have been five gorings and other minor injuries since the festival began on Friday. One victim, a 22-year-old California man, had his left arm impaled and was dragged for several yards, per the AP. (Hillmann is also the author of a book on how to survive the running of the bulls.)