How to pronounce “blazes”(verb) in English

group. But eventually, he actually pulled off this race. And it was beyond anything I could have expected.Rather than it being one of these head-to-head, drudge matchs where, you know, each runner blazes off for glory, it ended up becoming like one of these old time, guitar-pickerbattles, you know, where people sort of swap chords back and forth and sort of learn from each other and then, gradually things build and build and build until they're both competing