As Victor Meldrew would say – I don’t believe it! Basking in the middle of a wonderful heatwave (and if I here one more person moaning about the hot weather I will scream) up pops an email.

We have been promised that the weather is hotting up in time for Wimbledon – and hopefully for those long, school summer holidays, writes Sue Austin

Blisters have healed, muscles now work again and I am suffering post marathon blues as I try to adjust to normality after a wonderful four months.

Find out how Sue Austin and our county runners fared.

This Sunday is the big day for London Marathon blogger Sue Austin.

To all those across Shropshire and mid Wales in training for the London marathon – I salute you!

I now understand about the agonies and ectasies of a long distance runner – and I am nowhere near the finish line, writes London marathon blogger Sue Austin.

It is not the actual race itself, but the training that is the hardest part of running a marathon – according to the experts.

He looks like a little boy himself and at 13 he still is. But little Alfie Patten, who is just four-feet tall, has the weight of the world on his shoulders after becoming a dad to baby Maisie, writes blogger Sue Austin.

The ups and downs of training for a marathon were brought home to me in so many ways this week, writes blogger Sue Austin.

Training for a marathon is hard enough, writes Sue Austin.

Only a couple of weeks into my marathon training and it has dawned on me – this very different from being a fun runner, writes blogger Sue Austin.