Didn't get caught by

• Showed one's heels to
• Led the field
• Kept ahead of
• Emulated Michael Johnson
• Beat in a marathon
• Defeated a la Usain Bolt
• Beat at Belmont
• Left in the dust

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. run faster than; "in this race, I managed to outran everybody else" [also: outrunning , outran ]