An English mother and daughter who are both past champions of a trans-Atlantic pancake race will be in southwest Kansas for this year's competition.
21-year-old Devon Byrne won't be able to compete on Tuesday after winning for a third straight time last year.
Byrne will instead watch the Liberal leg of the Shrove Tuesday competition in which women from there and Olney, England, run the course with a pancake in their pan, flipping it at the beginning and end of the race. Participants compete in aprons and head scarves.
Her mother, Lesley Byrne, won the international competition in 1988 and 1989. She also won the Olney leg in 1993 on the same day she learned she was pregnant with Devon.
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 before Easter.
Devon is studying math and sports science at Loughborough University. She will be visiting the U.S. for the first time.
