The Mini is my home race- I've done it 11 times and have taken to signing up for the next year by the end of the current year's expo. It's a giant race - upwards of 35,000 participants - but it is so incredibly well supported, it is easy to forget the magnitude. In 13.1 miles, there are SEVENTEEN aid stations. If you walk away from this race dehydrated, something has gone horribly wrong. But the support is not only traditional course support - the community tends to turn out in droves as much of the first half of the race and the last third are in residential areas. So many high-fives.