Trans-Atlantic Shrove Tuesday pancake race kicks off in Britain

Runners for the trans-Atlantic Shrove Tuesday pancake race warm up before the event in the town of Olney in Buckinghamshire, England on March 5, 2019. Every year, women clad in aprons and head scarves from Olney and the city of Liberal in Kansas, United States run their respective legs of the race with pancakes in their frypans. According to legend, the Olney race started in 1445 when a harried housewife arrived at church on Shrove Tuesday still clutching her frying pan with a pancake in it. [Photo: AP/Frank Augstein]