Draft:Run Across Europe

• Comment: Resubmitting following the 1 December 2025 decline. Since that review, a new source has been added to the article: a profile in Columbia College Today (Winter/Spring 2026) by staff writer Emily Driehaus, covering the Run Across Europe.
  Context on the Fastest Known Time citation, for reviewers who may not know the organization: fastestknowntime.com is a curated records site that verifies submissions, not a platform where runners post their own unverified times. Each route is reviewed by regional editors before it is listed, and every record submission must include the original GPS data file along with a written report and photos, which an editor checks against the claimed time and style before the record is published. Daggerjax (talk) 08:11, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: No evidence of notability. Insufficient reliable sources provided. // hekatlys [talk] 00:19, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

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From 7 May to 20 August 2025, American ultrarunner David Green completed a 3,340-mile (5,375 km) run across Europe, traveling on foot from Porto, Portugal, to Istanbul, Turkey. The effort covered 103 days, 5 hours, 50 minutes, and 7 seconds.

Green followed a network of historic pilgrimage and trade routes, including the Caminho Português Central, the French Way of the Camino de Santiago, the Via Tolosana, the Via Aurelia, the Via della Costa, the Via Postumia, and the Via Egnatia. The route spanned 12 countries and traversed the Iberian Peninsula, southern France, northern Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, and Turkey.

Green was accompanied for significant portions of the journey by Jax, a rescue dog from Jacksonville, Florida. The expedition continued Green’s broader advocacy related to stray animal adoption, a focus that began during his earlier transcontinental run across the United States with his dog Lucky, an effort for which he is listed among individuals who have crossed the United States on foot (List of people who have walked across the United States). He supports this cause through Friends of Lucky Caminho, an initiative created in honor of Lucky that aids stray animals along Brazil’s Caminho da Fé.

Green documented the Europe run through daily blog entries on his website and through video journals published on Vimeo, describing the people, landscapes, food, and historical sites encountered along the route.

The completed route and associated GPS data were reviewed and recognized by Fastest Known Time (FKT), documenting Green as the first recorded person to complete a continuous run from the Atlantic coast of Portugal to Istanbul, Turkey. The effort was later featured as an “FKT of the Week” in Fastest Known Time’s official publication on 9 August 2025, highlighting the scale and continuity of the run.

In a Winter/Spring 2026 feature article, Columbia College Today, the official alumni magazine of Columbia University, profiled Green’s trans-European run, describing it as a multi-month endurance expedition and situating the effort within his broader career as an ultrarunner and entrepreneur.

The trans-European crossing was also covered in depth on The Ageless Athlete Podcast, which devoted a full-length episode to the run, examining the planning, physical demands, and psychological challenges of sustaining daily ultradistance running over more than three months.

External links

• Official blog
• Video journals on Vimeo
• Friends of Lucky Caminho