Around 2 p.m. Sunday, Ryan Davies said he was "more completely spent than you can imagine," adding that his knees, arches, lower back, quads, calves and toes hurt.

Yesterday, after sleeping for 17 and a half hours, he said he felt surprisingly well.

Davies, who was an Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon dancer for the club swim team, said he didn't attend any of his classes yesterday.

He added that his hamstrings, feet and quads hurt, and he attempted to ease the pain by staying off his feet and taking ibuprofen.

Although Davies (junior-supply chain and information systems) said he experienced pain during Thon weekend, he said he was in the most pain immediately after Thon ended, when he said he had trouble walking.

"I held out without any kind of pain until late Saturday, but I didn't have any severe pain until Sunday," Davies said. "It was never to a point -- and maybe it was because of adrenaline -- but it was never to a point where I felt like I couldn't stand up and go on."

Davies said he underestimated how difficult it would be to dance for Thon.

"I didn't think it was going to be that terrible standing for 46 hours. I'm not sure why I thought that, but it was definitely more difficult than most people know, especially when you're down and falling asleep while you're walking," he said.

Lauren Anick, an independent dancer, said she went to bed around 7 p.m. Sunday night and slept for 22 hours. Anick (senior-communication sciences and disorders) also said she did not go to any of her classes yesterday.

Despite having a swollen ankle, Anick said she was "feeling good," adding that she had been putting ice on her ankle, elevating it and attempting to stay off it.

Anick said her ankle had been bothering her all weekend, but she tried not to think about it.

"I don't think I complained that much. At some points, I had people tell me they thought I was a moraler," she said, adding, "I would do the whole thing again tomorrow if my ankle didn't hurt."

Because she usually lifts five days a week, Kelly Dormer, a dancer for powerlifting club, said she was used to the pain, adding that she was most bothered by a headache and a "weird" feeling she also experienced Saturday night.

"It's this sort of drunk and delirious feeling where you feel like you're in a movie," she said. "It's like you're watching something happen to you but you're not really doing it."

After taking "the fastest shower ever," Dormer (sophomore-crime, law and justice) said she slept for 20 hours. Dormer also did not attend classes yesterday.

"I'm not really worried. My one teacher who usually takes attendance didn't yesterday because he knew a lot of people were involved in Thon, and he sent out a copy of the notes to everyone," she said. "It seems like teachers fit into one extreme or the other. They either expect you to be there or they are really cool about it."

After Thon ended, Dormer said her feet felt "like someone had just beat them repeatedly."

Dormer said her advice to anyone considering dancing in the future would be to focus on the Four Diamonds families rather than the pain.

"When you think about the pain the kids go through everyday, even though we don't feel that on a day-to-day basis, we'll take it on for a weekend to show them we care," she said. "How could you complain? All you have to do is think about what the families go through everyday."