What a Team Leader!

Penny wanted to get fit and didn't have a great deal of time. She somehow felt that she was using the children as an excuse not to.

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Once upon a time there was a young lady who wanted to get fit. She was always so busy she didn’t know what to do. No time, no time! She loved her children to bits and wanted to get fit. Although she did not know it she had a ready made team at hand. One day she went for a walk along the beach and walked out too far. All alone on the beach she walked further not noticing how far she had gone. Suddenly she had the strangest feeling of sinking and getting sucked into the sand her feet became gripped in a soggy vice. She was very frightened indeed and had to think fast. There was no one around to help her she was so alone. She found her inner strength and collected her wits together and quickly lay as flat as she could and pulled herself along where, luckily a piece of driftwood almost out of reach by grasping, clinging and pulling at it she was finally able to get out.

When she got home exhausted and covered in wet sand she realised how lucky she was. She was already fit enough to start getting even fitter. The housework went out the window and next day she took the children to play footy in the park she already had her own football team in the guise of her own family. The kids all enjoyed it so much that they brought along some friends to join in. Before she knew it she was organising cricket, football and parachute games encouraging other mothers to join in as well. At the same time she and all her friends and their children were getting thoroughly puffed out. Getting fit together and later on in the winter months they learnt to play badminton. Later on she became a children’s fitness coach that made her very impressively fit. What a team, what a team leader.