The race was double-file and strung out. Hobbs tried a dicey inside pass and Hocker was in a position where he could legally shut it down. It looked to me like Hocker then made a perfectly legal pass from there and then a very unlucky sequence as it timed out that Kessler just caught him and Kessler got the worse of that. Hobbs wasn’t that close or anything it just timed out poorly. But it wasn’t the field size it was two guys in a tight space which could happen with 10 guys or 16.
The Teare/Girma thing was another. Girma just isn’t cut out for it. He tried a weird sideways move to get free to get unboxed. He just jumped out in front of Teare with basically a fraction of space and didn’t accelerate. Teare predictably tripped him up and nearly went down himself. A shame because both guys probably were gonna run 3:49.