Pancake Day falls on Shrove Tuesday

The Great Spitalfields London Pancake Charity Race is held at the heart of London's East End at Spitalfields Market, Old Trumans Brewery, Dray Wharf off Brick Lane, London E1.

The race starts at 12.30 on the afternoon of Shrove Tuesday....8th March this year 2011.

Organisers "Alternative Arts" prefer entrants to register prior to Shrove Tuesday but registration is NOT compulsory so anyone can turn-up on the day and run this race. The race is run in teams of four so if you have your own team or are running the race alone you will be put into one of the many other teams which have are a man down to make up their team (not to worry if all teams have their four runners...the rules are virtually non-existent so you may run alone...and pilfer a few other runners from another team to cross the finishing line.The only rule which I have ever adhered to (and IS compulsory is that not only do the winning team need to cross the finishing first but...with all four team member's pancakes still in their pans, albeit in shreds and tatters and covered in grit from the road due to the amount of times they were tossed too high , missed their pan landing and been scraped off the road to finish the race abiding by the one rule...yes, it is allowed that teams may steal other teams fallen pancakes during the race...as long as each team member has something resembling a pancake at the finishing line it matters not one iota whose pancakes they are as long as the winning pancakes have been in the entire race and not thrown in at the end lol...

Oh, by the way, the whackier the costumes worn by the runners of the Great Spitalfields Pancake Race, the more help given by the cheering bystanders (yes it is allowed that the crowd may distract the teams as they toss their pancakes during the race to enable their favourite team (usually the whackiest) to catch any pancakes...be they their own or otherwise.

Whether or not you intend to run in the Great Spitalfields Pancake Race, are there to spectate and support your favourite charity or are on your lunch break from the office, the 8th March 2011 Pancake Race will be remembered as being the lunch time highlight of the working day calender...untill the following year of course.

Free to enter, Free to spectate...no sorry this Pancake event is NOT a great Free lunch...when you see the pancakes after the race even the regular pigeons turn their beaks up which the out-of-town pigeons attending soon peck-up whilst the Cockney pigeons flap as the crowd clap every pancake tossing catch as well as tossing mis-haps.

The Great Pancake race began in London's Covent Garden during the 1970's and 80's and then held in Londons famous area of Soho during the late 1980's early 90's before finding it's now regular venue at Spitalfields in 1993

I guarantee a fun-filled afternoon for all who run, everyone who cheers on the runners and if you are a Cockney Sparrow then this pancake race will be a feast for you...without the need for a pecking order like usual as there is enough pancakes to feed all feathered friends at the end...I just love this regular, little known charity event and recommend it to all who may be in the vicinity of Spitalfields London EC1 on 8th March 2011 and each year on Shrove Tuesda....PANCAKE DAY. .