The North Face 50m Championship in SF Has INSANE Elite Field - GAME ON!

The elite field for the North Face Endurance Challenge Gore-Tex 50-Mile Championship in San Francisco, CA, was recently released and...holy speedskates, it's a showdown! I'm seriously eating crow from my premature post last month. The prize purse remains one of the biggest in the sport - $10k for first, $4k for second, $1k for third for both men and women.

For the men, you've got the top 3 finishers from 2012 returning - former winner Miguel Heras, Francois D'Haene, and Cameron Clayton - as well as Sage Canaday, Max King, Dakota Jones, Tim Olson, Rob Krar, Dave Mackey, Hal Koerner, Rickey Gates, Mike Foote, Team inov-8's Gary Gellin and USATF Trail Marathon Champion Alex Nichols, Jorge Marvilla (with a recent 1:09 finish at the Berkeley Half Marathon), Ryan Sandes, Dave Riddle, Jason Schlarb (5 wins this year!), Mike Wolfe, Michael Wardian, Jason Wolfe, Karl Meltzer, and MORE. Incredible line up!

The women's competition is similarly stacked. 2012 winner Emilie Fosberg is back, as is 2nd place finisher Stephanie Howe, and they will be running with Rory Bosio (winner and CR at UTMB in Sept), Anna Frost, Olympian Magdelena Boulet, USATF 50-mile champion Cassie Scallon, USATF 100k champion Michele Yates, Jenn Shelton, Mexico's Silvia Correa Jimenez, Jennifer Benna, Aliza Lapierre, Joelle Vaught, and the list goes on.

It's going to be a barn burner! Hope to see you there. If you are out there taking pictures, be sure to post them on Instagram/Twitter/Vine with the tag @thenorthface and #ECSChampionship between Dec 4-11 to be eligible for North Face prizes.

And good luck, everyone!

Full list:

GORE-TEX 50 MILE - ELITE WOMEN
FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	CITY	STATE
Ashley	Arnold	Carbondale	CO
Cynthia Lauren	Arnold	Lexington	KY
Jennifer	Benna	Reno	NV
Lyne	Bessette	Topsfield	MA
Melanie	Bos	Kelowna	British Columbia
Rory	Bosio	Truckee	CA
Magdalena	Boulet	Oakland	CA
Kerrie	Bruxvoort	Broomfield	CO
Christina	Clark	Guelph	Canada
Silvia	Correa Jimenez	Mexico Distrito Federal	Mexico
Lauren	Dils	Kentfield	CA
Emelie	Forsberg	Troms	France
Sheri	Foster	Calgary	Canada
Anna	Frost	Metz Tessy	France
Brandi	Garcia	Atlanta	GA
Jaime	Gile	Fayetteville	AR
Kelsey	Gray	Kalamazoo	MI
Rachel	Hanson	Flower Mound	TX
Charmaine	Horsfall	Leeds	UK
Stephanie	Howe	Bend	OR
Andrea	Jarzombek-Holt	Portland	OR
Anna	Jefferis	Santa Barbara	CA
Catrin	Jones	Victoria	British Columbia
Megan	Kimmel	Silverton	CO
Megan	Laib	Santa Monica	CA
Aliza	Lapierre	Williston	VT
Sarah	Lavallee	Kailua	HI
Kristina	Lewis	Boulder	CO
Gina	Lucrezi	Carbondale	CO
Sally	McRae	Aliso Viejo	CA
Simone	Moro	Bergamo	Italy
Erica	Namba	Berkeley	CA
Maggie	Nelsen	Encinitas	CA
Rachel	Paquette	Victoriaville	Canada
Amy	Phillips	El Dorado Hills	CA
Cassandra	Scallon	Boulder	CO
Jenn	Shelton	Durango	CO
Diane	Van Deren	Sedalia	CO
Joelle	Vaught	Boise	ID
Katie	Wadden	Vancouver	Canada
Michele	Yates	Littleton	CO
GORE-TEX 50 MILE - ELITE MEN
FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	CITY	STATE
Joshua	Arkins	Rogers	AR
Florent	Bouguin	Québec	Canada
Dylan	Bowman	Mill Valley	CA
Noah	Brautigam	Truckee	CA
Scott	Breeden	Bloomington	IN
Sage	Canaday	Boulder	CO
Adam	Campbell	North Saanich	Canada
Frank	Caro	Ventura	CA
Jay	Cech	Portland	OR
Cameron	Clayton	Boulder	CO
Jeremy	Clegg	Nanaimo	Canada
Francois	D'haene	St Julien	France
Gerad	Dean	Mount Shasta	CA
Felix	Dejey	Metz Tessy	France
Scott	Dunlap	Woodside	CA
Fritjof	Fagerlund	Uppsala	Sweeden
John	Finn	El Cerrito	CA
Christian	Fitting	Berkeley	CA
Matt	Flaherty	Bloomington	IN
Mike	Foote	Missoula	MT
Martin	Gaffuri	Annecy	France
Rickey	Gates	San Francisco	CA
Gary	Gellin	Menlo Park	CA
Sjaan	Gerth	Toronto	Canada
Ryan	Ghelfi	Ashland	OR
Neal	Gorman	Charlottesville	VA
Jeff	Gosselin	Quebec	Canada
Jonathan	Gunderson	San Francisco	CA
Chris	Hauth	San Francisco	CA
Miguel	Heras Hernandez	Bejar	Spain
Peter	Hogg	Livonia	MI
Dakota	Jones	Boulder	CO
Max	King	Bend	OR
Hal	Koerner	Ashland	OR
Joshua	Korn	Ogden	UT
Daniel	Kraft	Grand Junction	CO
Robert	Krar	Flagstaff	AZ
Marc	Laveson	San Francisco	CA
Dave	Mackey	Boulder	CO
Jorge	Maravilla	Vallejo	CA
Karl	Meltzer	Sandy	UT
Alex	Nichols	Colorado Springs	CO
Timothy	Olson	Ashland	OR
Michael	Owen	Pomeroy	OH
David	Riddle	Cincinnati	OH
Danny	Rogers	McLean	VA
Phil	Sanderson	San Francisco	CA
Ryan	Sandes	Cape Town	South Africa
Jason	Schlarb	Missoula	MT
Bob	Shebest	Windsor	CA
Brian	Tinder	Flagstaff	AZ
George	Torgun	Berkeley	CA
Riccardo	Tortini	Houghton	MI
Chris	Vargo	Colorado Springs	CO
Manuela	Vilaseca	Rio De Janero	Brazil
Zach	Violett	Bend	OR
Gregory	Vollett	Metz Tessy	France
James	Walsh	Encinitas	CA
Michael	Wardian	Arlington	VA
Jeremy	Wolf	Missoula	MT
Jason	Wolfe	Flagstaff	AZ
Mike	Wolfe	Missoula	MT