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My wife and I decided to enter our first ever obstacle race and so we drove up to Colorado

and we were staying at a friend's place the night before the event and we were super fired up.

Our first obstacle race and ready to have a great day.

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It's your mattress. We decided of course to go out better early. We want to be fully rested

for the race but my body's mattress was this mushy lumpy old thing and we ended up tossing

and turning all night so we wake up in the morning and I'm super stiff. I mean my back,

my hips, they're all tight. Same thing with my wife. I mean we looked at each other and we're like

what happened and we think it was the mattress. It totally wronged us.

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