STEPH Anders only began running seriously a year ago when she joined her local running club.

But yesterday the 39-year-old from Pyrton, near Watlington, completed the London Marathon in five hours and 14 minutes.

She said: “Before I joined the Benson Striders I was just a casual runner.”

She raised more than £2,500 for John Masefield House, a care home in Burcot.