Final: Meghraj Sharma is the last one standing, 16 yards

Meghraj Sharma, bib 18, is the last one standing at BigFoot Ahmedabad: 16 yards, 107.3 km, finished 15 hours 46 minutes after the 07:00 first bell.

Dr Ronak, bib 11, is the assist, on 15 yards and 100.6 km. He came back from loop 15 and then quit the race, so the winner finishes exactly one yard clear of him.

The field. 68 runners started. 22 finished their category: 17 in Backyard 4 and 5 in Backyard 8. Of the 15 who started the Backyard Ultra, one is left standing and 14 are out. All three who started Backyard 15 are out, the best on 7 yards. 45 are out in all. Together the field has run 353 yards, 2,367 km.

The records. Bib 430, Surajit Sinha Roy, ran the quickest timed loop on BigFoot’s books, 28:08 in loop 3, and finished Backyard 4 in 1 hour 55 minutes 6 seconds of running, the fastest Backyard 4 finish on our records; the only earlier Backyard 4 finisher with loop times on file is Pune 2025, at about 3 hours 22 minutes. The Ahmedabad chapter record stays at 18 yards, set by Amit Bhattacharjee in 2025.

The winner’s run. Bib 18 ran 16 loops, every one inside 53:29 until his last, a 46:24 that was the quickest of his race. His last five loops averaged 49:42 against 52:06 for his first five.