At the end of the 30-minute walk Mr Rudd rallied the team for a happy snap, which was inadvertently taken three metres away from the makeshift bedroom of a homeless man in a sleeping bag on a concrete bench. Declining to be named, he told AAP he had slept through the entire event. Mr Rudd, who was wearing a vintage Queensland state of origin jersey, set a cracking pace for his young charges. Shane Montgomery, 20, a law and Chinese studies university student who's volunteering on the campaign, said he was battling to keep up. The prime minister only stopped once to pose for pictures with a cheer squad of tradies from the Builders Labourers Federation Union, who were off to work on the children's hospital building site. A member of his security team told AAP the prime minister had cut his walk short. He had been expected to walk down to the rowing club across from the Regatta Hotel, an extra kilometre. Later in Launceston, Mr Rudd announced funding of $28 million over four years for a University of Tasmania health and sports science hub. He was mobbed for more selfies by health students and staff while touring hospital simulation training rooms, where midwifery students learn how to resuscitate premature babies and mothers. He also got a quick health check from third year nursing students. He had a heart rate of 87 beats per minute and breath rate of 18 per minute, which student Sarah Knight said was "a little high because he was probably a little nervous." "He's definitely alive and kicking, very healthy," she said. The prime minister's blood pressure was 135/81. Labor MP for the seat of Lyons Dick Adams and MP for the seat of Bass Geoff Lyons joined Mr Rudd's tour. Mr Rudd declared the two men "invincible pillars of Hercules." Mr Rudd will campaign in Devonport, which lies in the seat of Braddon, on Tuesday afternoon.