But not for Ned Brockmann.

The 23-year-old electrician from Forbes in central western NSW has a grand plan – to become the fastest runner to dash across Australia and raise $1 million along the way.

Sky News Australia reports that Brockmann and his bleached blond mullet will complete about 100km per day to arrive at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach less than 43 days after setting off from Cottesloe Beach in Perth.

“I’ll absolutely get it done, it just depends on whether that’s going to means I do it in 18-hour days or whether I do it in nine-hour days,” he told SkyNews.com.au in an exclusive interview.

“I’m feeling very confident, I always have since the day I said I’ll do it.

“It’s just I don’t know how it’s going to look in terms of whether the days are going to be smooth sailing or whether there’s going to be a lot, a lot of s**t days but we can only know when that happens because that’s future Nedd’s problem and right now I’m just taking each day as they come.”

Each day the young tradie will rise at 5am and finish running 12 hours later, tackling the massive task in four 25-kilometre blocks each day.

While on the nearly 4,000km route, Brockmann will fundraise for homelessness charity We Are Mobilise, with his sights set on raising a whopping $1 million.

It is not the first time he has used running for a good cause. In 2020 he gathered more than $100,000 for the Red Cross by completing 50 marathons in 50 days while working full time as an electrician.

Brockmann said his latest plan to give money to We Are Mobilise was first spurred when he arrived in Sydney to complete his TAFE degree.

The 23-year-old recalled being shocked by the extent of the homelessness on the city streets.

“(I) was basically running down Eddy Avenue towards TAFE every Tuesday morning and I would run past for probably six months and I hadn’t talked to any homeless people and I didn’t know how,” he said.