Arty Battenkill photo. Me on the left, I happened to be passing a teammate who had fallen off the earlier 50+ field. He is a cat 2 CX guy and I see he brought his cross bike to the game.
At this point (mile 50) the field was utterly shattered. There were 3 ahead of me and 100+ behind, but looking at the results the biggest group to cross the line together, in our whole field, was 5 guys 15 minutes back.
Photo by John Bulmer.