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Women in matching checkered aprons, headscarves and a rainbow of running shoes limbered up Tuesday as they prepared for the centuries-old pancake race in this English country town. “It’s a horrible distance,” said Kaisa Larkas, 44, a mother of four who legged it past Eloise Kramer to capture the Olney title with a time of 63.37 seconds. The tradition has been repeated over the centuries — not only in Olney but across England and even in the United States, where the Kansas town of Liberal copied the idea and has been trying to outrun their friendly British rivals f...

For centuries, women in one English town have run a pancake race to mark the day before the start of Lent. They sprint through the streets trying not to drop their pancakes as they trace the path taken by a harried housewife in 1445. Legend says she heard the church bells signaling the Shrove Tuesday service and raced off with her skillet in hand. The tradition has spread to other places in England and even to a town in Kansas. It's a dash of whimsy ahead of the Christian period of repentance and sacrifice before Easter.

For centuries, women in one English town have run a pancake race to mark the day before the start of Lent. They sprint through the streets trying not to drop their pancakes as they trace the path taken by a harried housewife in 1445. Legend says she heard the church bells signaling the Shrove Tuesday service and raced off with her skillet in hand. The tradition has spread to other places in England and even to a town in Kansas. This year, the U.S. leg claimed victory in this dash of whimsy ahead of the Christian period of repentance and sacrifice before Easter.