these days, contestants still have to wear an apron and a headscarf, and carry a frying pan with a pancake in it, just like the housewife in 1445! It's difficult enough to run with a frying pan, but contestant must also flip their pancake at the beginning and the end of the race! The race start at 11:55 a.m.,and the contestant run about 380 meters. Of course, the Onney contestant compete against each other, but they also compete with a small town in the state of Kansas, in the U.S.A.! They adopted the Pancake Race custom from Olney, and every year the two town compete for the fastest time in the race. A Kansas woman holds the record, and last year, I decided to enter the Kansas race. I didn't win,but it was a lot of fun