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Scott Michael savored the thrill of victory despite the agony of the feet. The 31-year-old dance instructor from Huntington Beach waltzed his way into the record books at 10:30 a.m. last Wednesday but kept on dancing 5 1/2 hours longer, setting a world solo dancing mark of 126 hours at the Stanton studio where he works.

“When we go for a record, we go for a record,” he said after surpassing the old record of 120 1/2 hours. “I’m just getting my second wind.”

But around 4 p.m., the wind ran out.

“It was a lot more fun and exciting than what I thought it would be,” he said of his six-day effort to get his name in the Guiness Book of World Records.

Although he had to be awakened with smelling salts on two occasions and showed signs of weariness by Wednesday, Michael’s mother, Thelma Michael of Anaheim, said he held up well despite only three hours of sleep.

Michael used the record-setting event to raise funds for victims of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

Werner Kuhn, executive director of the AIDS Response Program of Orange County, said that $2,000 to $3,000 in pledges and several dancing hours sold for $20 each to about 20 partners would go toward the Garden Grove-based program’s support services, such as victim counseling.