If you were actually there you would have seen that Mars Hill's top 8 were in the race pacing the other guys on the team and helping them out. A bunch of them were wearing some other team jersey (Team Velocity). A few of them took it out hard to get the race going and then dropped back to help teammates. They have a ton of new freshmen this year. If I were you I'd get on that team if you want to run D2 and be at the top of your conference and region basically every year. They just hired one of their former standouts from the team.