After dropping my kids off at school one morning last week, I headed off to my group fitness session feeling ever-so-slightly unmotivated after a hectic few weeks. I had briefly considered not going as my energy tank was a little on the empty side, but as I indicated to turn into the football grounds, something caught my attention out of the corner of my eye. Three vibrant ladies were walking along the footpath behind their shiny walkers, each smiling and chatting as they went. With a few moments before my group fitness session was to start, I pulled over to ask the ladies where they were off to on such a beautiful spring morning.

“We’re just out for a walk, we do this every day,” Gwen Carstein, 79, to my