You probably read the MX newspaper…
June 16th, 2008
… and decided to pay my site a visit.
Thanks very much for coming. I would offer you tea and scones, but given you are at a website, rather than my house, it makes my offer rather difficult to fulfill.
But feel free to look around, inspect the goals, and leave some comments along the way.
The MX article covers my attempt tomorrow (Tuesday June 17) to be the first person to travel through the ENTIRE Melbourne train network in one day. If I do, it will also knock goal 141 off my list. Here is a photo of the article; I will attach a read-able version later.
Connex and Telstra have decided to tie themselves in with the silliness of this goal as well, which adds a little more pressure to the occasion.
Connex have written and sent out a press release to all the media outlets, and it sounds like I may be doing some radio interviews during the day, which is very exciting. Stay tuned to Channel 7 news tomorrow as well!
Telstra are providing me with 3G phones and a laptop, and they are building a blog on their website to track my progress during the day. I will be updating the blog during my trip (I do have 18.3 hours to kill!) with video updates and posts, and people can leave messages and comments that I can respond to.
The progress website, when live, is NowWeAreTalking.com.au/blogs/project-183
June 16th, 2008 at 4:32 am
I like the idea!
Good luck you fearless adventurer
June 16th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Good luck tomorrow, Heath.
June 16th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Good Luck Heath
The travelling Tully!!!!!!!
June 16th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Good luck Heath shall be following all the way, something I have always wanted to do
June 16th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Hi, yeh I did read about this in the MX newspaper yesterday. It looks like fun. I should see you on the 10:10 Upfield train coz my train was running late and happens to co-inside with your plans which is awesome. I just have to remember what you look like. Cya soon.
June 16th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
haha, I like the way you roll! Fun times. You are crazy! Did you say you work in Marketing, who do you work for?
June 16th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Not to be picky or burst your bubble, but you wouldn’t be the first to do such a thing. In fact quite a lot… well perhaps not that much but some; rail enthusiasts have managed to do what you are within the same time period. I am actually lead to believe that the ‘Victorian Railways’ even ran a competition at one time back in the 60’s or 70’s on the same idea. Anyway, good luck, hope those Connex announcements apologising for the inconvenience don’t get to your head and there goes another off the list!
June 16th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Good luck, Heath! I hope you’re having fun - it’s a great idea.
Look forward to hearing all about your travels today.
June 16th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Hey Heath!
Man, 18 hours of old men snoring! You deserve an award.
Look forward to hearing how it goes. Hope you didn’t have to use the train toilets too much…hahaha.
Your goals are inspiring. I found your site months ago and decided to create my own list… I’m up to 77 at the moment!
Thanks! rock on.
Rach
June 17th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Hi, Actually I am from North-East Victoria and I just saw you on 10 news !!! Sitting in the background with your t-shirt on !!!
June 17th, 2008 at 4:10 am
You have gained a new fan Heath! Your website is now saved in my favourites and will be checking in from time to time to see how much more you have knocked of your list!
Have forwarded the link to friends both interstate and internationally to show how awesome us aussies/victorians really are!!
Way to go!!!
June 17th, 2008 at 5:36 am
Heath,
It was nice meeting this evening (Blackburn station) and enjoying your stories of the days, goals past and future goals. I mentioned about a surfer named Dale Webster who ended up surfing every day for 29 years. http://www.surfingthemag.com/news/surfing-pulse/030104_webster/
Also featured in a surf movie called Step Into Liquid
I am happy to say that I recovered my daughter Jordan back at the East Ringwood station. We had a good laugh but you know she will ping that story on me how I left her behind in future years!
Keep inspiring and striving!!
Cheers
Stephen, Jordan, and Curtis
June 17th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Sounds pretty boring, but I guess it’s one way to pass the time by, thought about doing it myself someday. Wouls you be able to send me any information on your trip you might have? like the routes you took, any tips etc?
Cheers!
Ryz
June 17th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Hate to burst your bubble Tully my friends and i did this in 1983 we were 14 we took evey train to every line ……looks like a bit of a bummer, and we had the old rattlers to contend with but congrats anyway……..
June 17th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Read this on the Herald Sun website, good on you. I’m on the Sydenham line.
June 17th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
A guy from Greensborough called Brent did this in 2005. He had a blog called Melbourne Scribe where he detailed it:
http://melbournescribe.blogspot.com/2005/01/connex-challenge.html
June 18th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Personally I don’t know why you would do that, seems to be a waste of 18.3 hours in my opinion, but a goal’s a goal!
You could have just crossed out the Frankston line though and no one would have cared.
June 18th, 2008 at 5:10 am
To save Heath the awkwardness of playing down the whole “first person to do it” claim, it was actually Connex who told him (albeit uninformed) that no-one had done it before.
Basically it makes it more media friendly.
If you read Heath’s list there is no mention of setting some kind of Guinness record for train travel…
June 18th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I did this a day before and a day after heath.
I was looking for pennies though, not crossing off goals.
for those interested i found 4.
was a grand day.
June 18th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
you would not have done the flemington racecourse line and did you go through the city loop at all