Cody Roth sends Biologico
On Instagram you said you're a quadragenarian, can you explain that more?
That's just a light-hearted term I came across to describe someone in their forties. Honestly, I never thought I would be climbing and feeling stronger at 40 than I did at 20, so I have a hard time not feeling a little extra psyched about that. For sure some things do feel different, I don't think 40 is the new 20... I'm going gray, I don't understand trap and drill music, the same way my parents didn't and don't understand The Fugees, B.I.G., Radiohead and Wu Tang, and I have to regularly pluck a really annoying hair that suddenly started growing on the tip of my nose, but my raw power and fitness hasn't declined like I thought and was led to believe.
For now, I guess I feel a bit like the way my youngest brother must have felt when he woke up from surgery after me and my other brother had cruelly convinced him that tonsil removal also included Johnson removal, and he suddenly realized, to his relief, that it wasn't as bad as we said! Humor aside, I'm psyched to see so many climbers and people in general dispelling old stereotypes of all sorts nowadays. If I help with that in some small way, I'm happy.
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