HUDSON, Iowa --- Waterloo native Mike Peverill did not have the average weekend.

On Friday morning Peverill, along with 10 of his running mates, began a 337-mile relay in Sioux City, and they would not stop until they reached Eagle Point Park in Dubuque.

The East High School alum and his team, the Slo Pokes, were running as part of Relay Iowa, and Saturday night Peverill and four other members of Slo Pokes got a much needed break at a checkpoint in Hudson.

"I'm tired, I'm really tired," Peverill said. "It's been really tough; I have a lot of sore muscles. But we are a team; we rotate to shorten things up and try to get through."

Peverill and his teammates chose to divide their team into groups of five and six which alternated the running, one team would run a leg of the relay while the other drove ahead and waited for them to arrive.

Runners rotated every four or five miles, depending on the length of the leg.

When Peverill and his group arrived in Hudson they were fresh off finishing a 36-mile leg beginning in Eldora; from Hudson the group drove to Independence where they met with other members of their team, and began another 23-mile stretch to Manchester at 2 a.m.