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    English runner wins trans-Atlantic pancake race

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    By KMAN Staff on February 21, 2012 State News

    LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) An English runner has won the annual Shrove Tuesday trans-Atlantic pancake race, beating the winner of the southwest Kansas leg of the race by 10 seconds.

    Devon Byrnes, 18, of Olney, England, covered the course in 58.5 seconds to beat Kaela Krueger, 18, who won the leg of the race in Liberal six hours later.

    Women clad in aprons and head scarves run the course with a pancake in their pan, flipping it at the beginning and end of the race.

    Shrove Tuesday, widely known in Britain as Pancake Day, is traditionally the last day for merrymaking before the start of Lent.

    Pancakes were thought to be a good way for Christians to consume the fat they were supposed to give up during the 40 days of Lent before Easter.

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