An amazing five-part race report of an age-group with a lottery slot at Hawaii. In part one, he describes what it's like to race in Hawaii:
But Kona is different, special. Kona is the Ironman, where the roads have been baptized with the sweat of thousands, paved with sacrifice, where Pele has crowned champions and crushed pretenders, where agony and ecstasy merge over 17hrs into one blurry kaleidoscope of suffering, sacrifice and triumph.
If you've got some time, you should read the rest. It's in five parts: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five