Each year, the women of Olney, England, and Liberal, Kansas, compete in unusual footrace. Dressed in (apron) and headscarves, they wait at both towns' starting lines. Each woman holds a frying pan one pancake inside. At the signal, the women flip their pancakes and they are off.
This "pancake racing" tradition is said to have started on Shrove Tuesday, 1445, in Olney, is the day before the Christian season of Lent(大斋期) begins. During Lent, many people decide to give up sugary or fatty foods.
Legend says that in 1445, an Olney woman (make) pancakes to use up some of her sugar and cooking fats before Lent. She lost track of time and (sudden) heard the church bells ring, signaling the (begin) of the Shrove Tuesday service. (realize) that she was going to be late for church, she (race) out, still wearing her apron and headscarf and holding her frying pan with a pancake in it.
In the following years, the woman's neighbors imitated her dash to church, pancake racing was born. Olney women continue this Shrove Tuesday tradition more than five hundred years later.
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