Beyerguy-- don't know whether pace was a factor in the final time, but given the weather conditions it would be pretty tough to go with a definitive "yes", from anybody.

Definitely not one of the examples I had in mind, though-- those concern fractions so slow the final time is ADVERSELY affected, or so extremely fast the frontrunners may quit. In LITF's case he ran FASTER,and the other two were on or near the fast pace, and ran big nubers anyway-- without the races being cut loose.