Ok, I 'solved' the Ley Race issue.

If you move your alts to the area that you complete the race at, they won't actually have the WQ in their log. So, leave'em at the quest giver and run it on your main, but you have to be within quest range of your alts when you fill the bar.

Doing it this way I was able to get group credit, and I even figured out a good path to take that gives you 50% out then the last 50% in, so it's about as fast as it can be done for us.