The Hidden Danger Of Your Cycling Midlife Crisis

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:00]Cycling is the new golf. Beongs are the new pints. Bikes are the new sports cars.

[00:00:10]Over the last few years, more and more people in their middle age have been bitten by the cycling bug. But why? Is it fitness or losing weight, having more spare time, perhaps more spare money to spend on the latest and greatest tech?

[00:00:24]or is it simply the latest way to cry out, "I'm having a midlife crisis."

[00:00:31]I've been doing some digging to find out what's going on. And I've also spoken to those in the know to find out if there are any risks to suddenly pushing your heart rate to its limit when you've barely exercised for years. You have asymptomatic individuals who want to push themselves, who do have clear risk factors. It wasn't like a a real premium activity >> like £5,000 or the equivalent on their best bike. I wouldn't be a prisoner to tech. I think that's important.

[00:01:10]Officially the midlife window is between 45 and 60. I am exactly 45 which means two things. A, I'm the only GSM presenter looking at a midlife danger zone upcoming. And B, I probably preempted my own midlife crisis when I started my health and fitness journey a couple of years ago. What is the definition of a midlife crisis? Well, at this point, I'm going to quote from Wikipedia, which says, "It is a transition of identity and self-confidence that can occur in middle-aged individuals. The phenomenon is described as a psychological crisis brought about by events that highlight a person's growing age, inevitable mortality, and possible lack of accomplishments in life. But maybe it's even simpler than that. Maybe a midlife crisis is simply the acknowledgement there may be more yesterdays than there are tomorrows. That you've been putting off enjoying things in life because you said you didn't have time or perhaps you didn't have enough money until now. To help me figure out if the bike is a vehicle for health or just a two- wheeled cry for help, I went to meet Michael Oliver. Michael is a researcher at a market intelligence firm Mintel.

[00:02:19]But in the cycling world, he is famous for one very specific reason. A few years ago, he investigated this exact demographic and officially coined the term we all know and love, the mammal, middle-aged man in Lyra. Could you start by telling us what prompted doing that research in the first place? Basically, it was my my job uh to write about the leisure industry. I was like the default uh writer for this report because I raced a lot when I was younger and uh and I was a professional for a while.

[00:02:49]So, I was the obvious candidate to to write it cuz I still had contacts in the in the industry and and an interest in the subject.

[00:02:58]>> Uh so, on to that first piece of research you were involved in back in 2010. uh what were the main findings that you had back then?

[00:03:06]>> In 2010, we we identified that there was this sort of emerging group of riders.

[00:03:14]Um and this was something that came really from talking to people in the in the in the trade in the cycling industry. this sort of 35 to 54 year old dem male demographic that was taking a greater interest in cycling and and it was a sort of boom area for for manufacturers and retailers >> and did you find the reasons for that sudden boom of that age group >> I think it's really difficult to kind of pin it down to one reason I think there were a lot of a lot of factors at work at that time cycling was was quite a high visibility sport in that it was on TV quite a Uh you had people like Mark Cavendish who was like a role model really for a lot of male cyclists and he was be becoming very successful winning to France stages. And then you of course you then had the emergence of team sky and I think that was very important because it gave a lot more visibility and kind of credibility I suppose to cycling among the general male population >> and it was around about that time that the term mammal was coined middle-aged man in Lyra. Um how did that come about and did you think it was going to resonate for so many years since? That's that's a really tricky one because I I don't actually remember sort of how it how it came up. I mean I I I think it was a term that first emerged in the industry as a sort of loose term that they were they'd identified this demographic and I spoke I when I was doing trade interviews it came up and somebody sort of mentioned this and I thought wow that's a really nice acronym and marketing and research people love acronyms being sort of honest it was just another report in my schedule and I finished that report and moved on to the next one and then suddenly I started sort seeing and hearing people using the the the term and uh it was it really caught us out. You know, we didn't expect it to kind of take off because there are lots of mark marketing acronyms around.

[00:05:14]>> Uh so on to that first piece of research you were involved in back in 2010. Uh what were the main findings that you had back then? Was there anything that really stuck out to you that had changed significantly since you were majorly into cycling for the first time in the 80s? Uh I mean I think it was probably more around the the kind of affluence of people who were taking up cycling and and also the money that they were willing to spend on you know their bikes, their clothing, the equipment uh you know it just was very different in in terms of they had more money to spend and they were willing to spend on that and perhaps in the in the 80s and 90s that was less less so. there wasn't it wasn't like a a real premium activity to do whereas I think that changed in the 2000s and it became more of a status symbol to have you know these really expensive carbon bikes and all the gear you know I mean you and I have heard the term lots of times probably that you know all the gear no idea kind of thing but people definitely had the money to spend on that gear >> another thing that we hear certainly a lot of in the past maybe a little bit less so now is that cycling is the new golf. Uh firstly, would you agree with that? And if so, why why is cycling the new golf?

[00:06:31]>> It's it's a tricky one. I It's a good question. I mean, I I think we we do a report on sports participation and participation in cycling is uh quite a lot higher than golf. I think it's quite a good way for networking as well. you know, it's not just about sort of the opportunity to make business connections, but I think there's this sense of camaraderie as well that you get from cycling, which maybe you don't get so much from golf because you're not in such a big group. And and I think um from a mental health point of view, having this group of people that you can ride next to and not look directly in the eye and say how you feel or or what's going on in your life is is is pretty is pretty strong for for a lot of riders, you know. So what have been the main changes that you've seen in your research over the last sort of 16 years since 2010? Have there been variances in the types of people getting into it, the number of people etc etc. >> I mean I suppose there's been a kind of connection to um the economy when there's a cost of living crisis we do see a decline in in the the sort of if you like the mammal population. Uh the one the one difference to that was during the pandemic when cycling was one of the few activities you could do. Uh and and that we saw a real a real dramatic boom. Uh in fact the whole industry saw a dramatic boom but among them the kind of mammal demographic. We saw a big growth in population that then fell away after the pandemic because things like gyms reopening and that sort of thing. Uh but the last couple of years we've actually seen that you know growing again. And I think consumers have gradually started to feel a little bit better off and and that recovery tends to always start at the sort of more affluent end of the sort of uh the population and then filter down. So yeah, I think it's it's mainly to do with you know disposable income uh and then hopefully that will continue but we'll have to see. You are not only research, you've been into the sport for decades and decades, racing a lot as well, being on the club scene. What are the main changes that you would say you've seen over the last 40 years in cycling?

[00:08:41]>> Uh, I mean, I think, you know, the equipment's an obvious one because you can now buy performance to a certain degree with much lighter, more efficient aerodynamic bikes than than you could ever do before. And I think the ability to measure your performance uh it it provides a huge motivation for people because they can actually see how they're improving. Um so I think I think I think that's that's been a big factor.

[00:09:11]But but on the other hand there is this aspect that it's easy to become obsessed by all those numbers on you know power output, heart rate, um speed, you know all this sort of thing. great, you know, how many meters you've climbed and so on. Uh, and and I think that it's easy to forget the pure joy of just going out for a ride and and, you know, embracing nature, uh, thinking about things and getting away from it all. And and and that's something that's very important that I think, you know, riders need to remember.

[00:09:48]>> I found it really reassuring talking to Michael that cycling is not just about a midlife crisis. It is a great way of connecting with people both socially and also if you want to go networking. It's also a great way of getting fitter and therefore healthier and shedding a few pounds of excess fat which can't be bad for you at all. But what about spending thousands and thousands on the latest and greatest tech? I don't know, retail therapy potentially. I mean, I don't think that's scientifically proven, but if you spent years or decades working really hard and you now have some expendable money, why not buy a bike?

[00:10:22]Modern bikes are absolutely beautiful.

[00:10:26]But can you ever go too far with cycling? Can you get too obsessed and do too much? Aside from potentially making your partner a cycling widow, are there any risks to your health? I mean, going from being deskbound to suddenly pushing yourself to your limit up a 5k 10% climb, it's going to be a shock to the system, right? I.e. a shock to your heart.

[00:10:50]To find out, I went to visit Professor Dan Augustine, medical director of Sports Cardiology UK, and with 25 years experience in cardiology. Uh, Dan, I think anyone that gets into sport and cycling probably thinks they're doing themselves a lot of favor, and I would imagine that is true. If you get into cycling specifically in your midlife, say from 40 and beyond, are there any risks to your health and particularly your heart? The main risks are really inherent to what your risk for a cardiovascular event is as an individual. So I would urge anyone over the age of 40 who's trying to get into sport or get back into sport or increasing intensity of sport to really own what their own heart risk is. And so that would mean having a feel for what your blood pressure is, what are your cholesterol levels, what's your family history. Do you have a genetic risk? Um what's your risk of diabetes? Have you had a diabetes blood test? The one good thing about the NHS is that all GP practices should be offering routinely every 5 years from the age of 40 patients, all of us, me and you, the the chance, the opportunity to have a risk evaluation. And so that's the first thing is to know what your risk is. And then when you know what your risk is, actually how hard you push yourself in terms of intensity and volume really depends on your risk score. So, I would I would suggest that if you're at low risk, um there are no big risk factors, you're feeling okay, you've trained sensibly and you're and you know how much you can give uh and your training's gone well, then to be sensible and increase the intensity of volume of exercise.

[00:12:20]The flip side of that, I think you have asymptomatic individuals who want to push themselves, who do have clear risk factors for heart attacks and cardiovascular disease, such as diabetes, such as high blood pressure, such as they smoked before, they've got a genetic history. those people I would take more of an individualized approach and I I would recommend that if they are in higher risk and they really want to push themselves and to get individualized opinion as to what test they should have I don't think it would be unreasonable to offer some cardiac test including a form of a stress test is there a difference in risk between people that have been kind of lifelong exercises/ cyclist from early teens let's say versus people that did the PE at school left university didn't do any bought for 20 years and suddenly decided to look themselves in the mirror, I need to do something. I'm going to pick up cycling. I.e. they were fairly sedentary for 20 years. Is there a difference between those two groups of people as to the risks they might be exposing themselves?

[00:13:19]>> I think that it would be reasonable to say that if you've been exercising regularly throughout your lifetime that you would have had a benefit of what exercise brings. You with regular exercise, you get better vascular tone.

[00:13:30]So, your blood vessels are better.

[00:13:32]They're not as stiff. If you think about blood pressure control, that that goes with stiffness. Your blood pressure control is better. All all of these will stand you in goodstead. And that's just the heart side of things. We're not even talking about the benefits of exercise with cancer and bone bone growth and and bone health. Um and so actually intuitively, I I would say, yeah, you know, if you've been exercising regularly and you've been well, you don't have the risk factors, you're probably going to be at lower risk than if you haven't. And if you if you are taking up exercise later on in life, then it's about being sensible if you don't have the risk factors. going going at a sensible pace, volume, intensity, >> and can you get too obsessed and therefore do too much of a good thing? I mean, you pointed out all the benefits to not just cycling, but general exercise to people's health. Are there any extra risks to pushing yourself too much and doing too many hours each week?

[00:14:21]What we know is that actually you don't need to do a lot of aerobic exercise to to start that adaptive process of the heart. So maybe 4 hours a week of aerobic, moderate intensity aerobic exercise will the heart will start to adapt. The heart will get bigger. The pump function should be okay. The heart will get slower in terms of the heart rate and there'll be some other heart trace changes. So they're the main physiological adaptations that we see.

[00:14:48]But when you're pushing yourself to that ultra endurance week after week after week, which is isn't the majority of people um who are doing recreational sport, but there are definite studies that show that you can damage your heart. you can cause a protein release called tropponin, which is usually released in heart attacks. Now, they haven't had a heart attack, but it's showing that something's happening to the heart muscle cells when you're pushing yourself at these higher aerobic events. I'm not talking about your 10k run at the weekend where you're or your your park climb, but I'm talking about your endurance events. There are also studies that show that after you finished a high-end endurance event, whether that's cycling or running, you do a heart scan, the heart's not pumping well. So you have an immediate effect of heart muscle damage >> and that usually gets better after a few days. But you can imagine that if you keep this repetitive nature of high volume, highintensity exercise going on and on and on that it could potentially do some harm. And we know that there are studies that have shown endurance athletes having heart muscle scarring.

[00:15:47]And this is all the hypothesis that has this scarring developed because of years of endurance training.

[00:15:53]>> All all of this stuff is relatively recent. When I say in the scientific world, I'm talking 5 to 10 years, which actually in terms of science and our understanding is a relatively short period of time.

[00:16:04]>> And what about the difference if any between uh male and female cyclists and heart health? Is there any data on that?

[00:16:11]>> Not as much as we would like. And that's largely because female endurance athletes, female cyclists haven't been part of many of these cohorts that we have the data on. What we do know is that the male athletes heart adapts more than a female. So you get more structural changes. They're a bit more pronounced. And one example, I guess, is atrial fibrillation. So AF, uh, is the acronym, and that's an irregular heartbeat. Okay. What we've shown in numerous publications, particularly with male endurance athletes, is that if you are middle-aged, over the age of 50, if you've been doing a high volume of endurance sports throughout your lifetime, the incidence of AF in those recreational athletes in their 50s, early 60s is probably four times higher than in a risk factor match sedentary cohort. Okay? So, you will have AF more.

[00:17:00]Okay?

[00:17:01]But we also know, and this is really important, it's why I tell a lot of athletes who come to see me, that your risk of stroke is lower than those who haven't exercised. So your risk of AF per se is higher, but your risk of having a bad outcome from the AF is lower.

[00:17:16]>> And we've known that in men for a while.

[00:17:18]And actually, what's come out recently, and I'm really grateful to see this, is there's some really great data from Scandinavian um uh skiers um uh female athletes to show the same thing. So these female endurance high aerobic caliber athletes are having more AF and that's the first time we've seen that. That was published in 2023.

[00:17:37]>> Yeah. So from the data that you got and the recent studies, it looks like there's no difference really between I suspect I suspect not.

[00:17:44]>> Okay. Um obviously ideally once you start to take up some serious exercise, you want to consult a doctor at least to start with or a cardiologist. If you just don't have access, bearing in mind people aren't necessarily in the UK watching this. Are there any wearables or anything you can do yourself to sort of check yourself over before you start to take on serious cycling? I think it's reasonable when you're starting out from not knowing what your heart rate is for a level of intensity is having a feel for what your heart rate is. Have a feel for how tired you are at different levels of heart rate. Um I wouldn't be a prisoner to tech. I think that's important. Um uh but there are some good gadgets available if depending on what you want to get out of it and if you have any symptoms. So I have a number of of elite and recreational athletes who have heart rhythm issues and there's there's some tech which called a fourth frontier monitor for instance that gives you really a it's a strap exercise high intensity gives you really nice heart traces. So I've had a few new diagnoses which have been made. Um, so there there is tech out there, but I think having a feel for what is normal for you as you're exercising, at rest, as you're exercising, as you recovery is really important. And what are the warning signs that something might not be quite right?

[00:18:56]>> Yeah, really, really good question. So, if you put a hard shift in high intensity afterwards, it's normal to feel a bit dizzy and that's acceptable.

[00:19:04]>> What I worry about more is if you're increasing the intensity of your exercise and as you're doing that, you're feeling dizzy or faint. That's not normal because actually more blood should be getting to the circulation and your brain and things like that. If you know your heart rates and you have a disproportionately high heart rate for the level of intensity you're at. So you're zone two, but your heart rate's 180 and you're thinking this isn't right. I should be zone five and really pushing it up this hill to have that heart rate, then that's not normal. Uh and I would ease off ease off there if you can safely. Um and just wait for the heart rate to to return back to normal.

[00:19:37]seek cardiovascular advice from a health practitioner. Undue breathlessness and chest pain. Um, so chest pain on exertion. Um, undue breathlessness on exertion. So things are out of the norm for you. What I would say is that people always worry rightly so about chest pain and things. And if you're having a big cardiac event, it it won't just be the chest pain, but it also be your efficiency. it would be really unusual to be able to push yourself to the same intensity if there is a blockage happening that's causing a cardiac problem. And so just think for other other signs as well. So it's not just the pain, but it's how your efficiency is compared to normal on a good day and what's normal for you. So I've had athletes that I've seen since their teenage years and they've always had a bit of tightness as they're um increasing exercise but it settles down and that's normal for them. But actually, if you've been doing exercise and this tightness has come out of the blue, then you need to seek medical advice.

[00:20:29]>> Yeah. Even if you feel reluctant to do so. What about you talked about a sort of higher heart rate than you would associate with the effort that you're putting in. What if that only lasts for 10, 20, 30 seconds. You suddenly feel the heart flutters. You look down and it's over 200, let's say, which you don't normally even see when you're going as hard as you possibly can. What might that be? What should you do in that situation? How serious could it potentially be?

[00:20:53]>> So, the first thing I would suggest is that if it's disproportionately that high to try and ease off, you don't know when it's going to stop. If it stops before you start to ease off and you feel okay, then I think you're okay to continue. If you have none of the other sort of red flag symptoms, so you don't feel like you're going to pass out, you haven't got chest pain, you haven't got breathlessness. If you ease off and a heart rate comes down, then I think you're okay to continue. But you should flag it up because what it most likely is is a heart rhythm disturbance either coming from the top part of the heart where atrial fibrillation happens or the central part of the heart where we can have rhythm disturbances called SVTs, supra ventricular tachicardias. So it's probably a rhythm disturbance and these are the exact type of sports I would say it's really hard if it's happening infrequently.

[00:21:36]coming to see me and me putting a monitor on your chest for a week probably is not going to be helpful if they're happening sporadically and actually then tech can help particularly the wearable technology where you can get an ECG and a heart trace.

[00:21:47]>> Uh and I guess we should point out that what you've just been talking about is quite different to to heart rate variability which a lot of people are currently monitoring and which we know generally the higher the better.

[00:21:57]>> Yeah, absolutely. So lots of data on HRV. Um everyone's individual. So, I have people coming in to see me saying, "My friend down the road's HRV is 20 milliseconds higher than mine. What does that mean?" And the answer is probably not a lot. It's about what yours is and how it adapts. And it's amazing how your HRV can vary with things like lack of sleep, stress, alcohol. And so, if you are worried about your HIV and it dipping a bit, just just take a step back and think actually, is there anything from a life perspective that's changed? And we do know that HIV is lower um the more not just cardiovascular risk but medical diseases that you have as well. So it is a good sign of health but we haven't been talking and focused on HRV in terms of this. So I think the heart rate side of things in terms of what is your beats per minute um I I would um trump over HRV in terms of when you're cycling and and what it's doing. Um, the last thing I want to do with this video is to put people off continuing to cycle or to get into cycling in the first place because it can be quite scary when you hear the potential problems that you might have and when you maybe see on the news that somebody's died during a sport eve event etc. Um, what would you say to people on that front that considering getting into cycling or might be slightly worried about what harm they could be doing themselves? Yeah. So for the majority of people undoubtedly the cardiovascular benefits from exercise outweigh any risks. It will help you in terms of a whole host of different diseases and and life expectancy. So I think that's the bottom line here. But if you're getting to it later on in life, you just have to be sensible. Know what your risk is, build up to things. But doing no exercise is worse than doing some exercise. Even if you have underlying cardiovascular disease, the benefits by far outweigh the risks. And if you're anywhere in the world, like I said, not just in the UK and you need to go or you want to go and get your heart check before you continue before you take up cycling, what heart check should you be asking your local doctor for? As a as a basis, I would recommend if you're doing those aerobic exercise, 3 or 4 hours, I think a screening questionnaire, which asks you about your background, what your blood pressure is and stuff, your family history, which is important, an ECG, a heart trace, and an ultrasound scan would stand you in goodstead. alongside those blood tests to look at your cholesterol level. If you then come back as having high risk, then I think that they're the sorts of people that I would say, look, we should do some form of stress testing to put your heart through it in a controlled environment whilst you're monitored on a heart trace to see if there are any abnormal changes. I thought Professor Dan's advice there was both extremely clear and also very sound. The benefits of turning to cycling or returning to cycling are almost always going to outweigh the risks in almost everybody. You just need to go about it in a sensible way and also be aware of your own risk profile.

[00:24:43]If you have any doubts, make sure you consult a specialist before you dive in at the deep end. Always better safe than sorry. Now, the last person that I spoke to for this particular video is Doug Baker. Uh Doug works for a cycling specific datadriven media agency called Shift Active Media. And through their rider research hub, they've got some really interesting data and insights into the age demographics taking up cycling, how much those different age groups are spending on the sports and indeed some key differences amongst different countries.

[00:25:14]From the data that you've got access to and been looking at, can you see that there are a lot of people in their midlife that are taking up cycling?

[00:25:22]>> Yeah, we do. So I think just over half of the enthusiasts that we speak to tend to take up cycling again. So a lot of them more of them will have been cyclists in their youth like riding as a child with your family but then over half will have paused for a while gone away from the sport and then come back to it later in life. That is though more common in English-speaking markets whereas in Germany, Italy, Spain, France, other markets we research, they're riding more often. uh just dayto-day throughout their life and maybe they change their behavior but it's not a big change when they hit middle age.

[00:25:59]>> So let's concentrate on the English speaking language countries then for those people that are getting back into the sport or picking up for the first time. What are the reasons that giving as to why they want to get back into it or into it for the first time?

[00:26:13]>> So the the main difference we see uh is health and so it might be overall fitness and just general well-being. a smaller group more about around around losing weight, but then they're far less likely to be motivated and inspired by pro riders or elite riders than young than younger riders. How many of them do you think have got more time on their hands to do it in the first or are they just making time because they feel like they need to get fitter etc. I think it's an interesting question because also how broadly do we draw middle age because I think that if you are starting in sort of late 30s early 40s quite often that is peak uh time shortage you've got s maybe a young family you got demands on work as you then age into like 50s and maybe even older that's when there tends to be a little bit more time to then be able to pursue things like sort of cycling and and other sports >> and is the old cliche true about older people spending more money on bling bikes and equipment and etc. >> I mean, short answer, yes. I I think it's uh about 22% of people in the uh 45 to 64 category are spending like5,000 or the equivalent on their best bike.

[00:27:23]But the reality is quite often that's just because they do have a bit more money. So I mean would the 1834 year old prefer a £5,000 bike? Yeah, probably. So actually is it a question about sort of motivation or is it just the means to buy yourself something that is going to support and and improve your experience of riding?

[00:27:40]>> What about that other cliche of sighting is the new golf that's something we're hearing particularly in the UK and the US probably like 15 12 years ago. Did that ring true at the time and if so is it still ringing true now? As in is cycling as a sport taking over a little bit from others or not? actually see golf according to sports England golf is actually growing with a younger audience more than it is an older audience even though the biggest group is is an older audience whereas cycling has still has significantly higher volume of people participating in it on like a monthly basis. So more people are riding than they used to be and actually golf is one of the sports that has the lowest overlap in terms of interest levels.

[00:28:22]they're actually more likely to follow or be interested in other sports like like football or basketball in the US than golf itself. So this idea that they sort of the two things happening together doesn't appear to be as true.

[00:28:33]It tends to be maybe one or the other.

[00:28:34]>> Okay.

[00:28:35]>> And then sort of going back to the reasons again for people getting into it. Uh what about the social side of cycling and just getting out in nature etc. you are more likely as a as a middle-aged rider to be riding most often with other people and like you know the the people talking about riding side by side particularly men being able to talk more openly uh and honestly with each other which is you know seen in other sports but is is is benefit of cycling. The other thing is that we also see that those who choose to ride alone are more likely doing it to clear their head. So this this you know this sport you can either find someone to do it with maybe connect with talk about something get away from what you're doing at the moment or just spending time in nature just clearing your head it's it's finding a lot of different ways for different people to not just look after your body but also get a bit of a bit of rest and a bit of recovery for for your brain as well.

[00:29:25]>> I guess it's one of the few times in your life at this point where you get away from a mobile phone like cycling and driving really isn't it?

[00:29:31]>> Yeah. Stare at your head unit instead.

[00:29:33]>> Well yes obsessed by numbers. I mean, that is what a lot of the people watching this video, including myself, probably do. Obsessed by numbers.

[00:29:40]>> Yeah, it has been really interesting to dig a bit deeper into the relationship between midlife and cycling. There are lots of reasons why someone might turn or return to cycling and or other forms of exercise at a certain point in their lives. It might be having more money. It could be that you have more time, although that's unlikely until you're in your 50s and beyond. But I think the primary reasons are probably down to an increased awareness of your own mortality and wanted to do something about your health, the wish to socialize perhaps in a more healthy way than evenings down the pub. But above all, it's an enjoyable sport. In conclusion, m is cycling the new midlife crisis?

[00:30:18]Absolutely not. And do not let anybody tell you otherwise. Cycling is good for you in so many ways. Just make sure you're sensible and aware of your own risk profile based on family history and current health. If in any doubt, as I said earlier, consult a specialist.

[00:30:35]Okay. I hope you have found this just as interesting as I did. Maybe you've got your own perspectives or experiences that you'd like to share. If so, please feel free to get involved in the comment section below. I look forward to reading them. Thanks very much for watching.