The Blazing Marathon

Des Moines, IA · Next listed edition Sun 3 Oct 2027

Next listed edition Sun 3 Oct 2027

Reports and event feedback

Race feedback · hosting-media.riverside.com ↗
Tyson Wieland (Race Chats with Blaze host and Blazing race director) · 2025
Looking back at the 2025 Blazing 5K, Tyson says combining the elite women with the open race helped add company for runners whose preferred pace lacked a pacer. He felt that change worked well and planned to continue it.
Source context and limitations
Perspective: event staff; this affiliated account is not an independent participant review. A short promotional retrospective from the Blazing race director about the 2025 5K, published in September 2026. It concerns the related shorter race’s combined field, not a marathon experience or a promise about the new 2027 marathon. The episode thanks race sponsors and invites registration. The publisher-provided transcript contains speech-recognition errors, so names, results and precise numerical claims are not inferred from it.