[Editor’s Note: Photographer Kirsten Kortebein captured these images of the 2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships. Please enjoy! All photos: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein and reuse without permission is not permitted.]
![2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships - Night](https://irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-The-North-Face-Endurance-Challenge-50-Mile-Championships-Night.jpg)
Lacing ’em up for the 5 a.m. start in California’s Marin Headlands. Photo: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
![2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships - Moises Jimenez Start](https://irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-The-North-Face-Endurance-Challenge-50-Mile-Championships-Moises-Jimenez-Start-600x400.jpg)
The watch says Chile’s Moisés Jiménez has 10 more minutes to warm up before go time. Moises would finish 32nd overall. Photo: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
![2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships - iRunFar Start](https://irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-The-North-Face-Endurance-Challenge-50-Mile-Championships-Start-600x400.jpg)
iRunFar’s Meghan Hicks sends news to the trail running world by satellite from the remote start line. Photo: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
![2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships - iRunFar Start](https://irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-The-North-Face-Endurance-Challenge-50-Mile-Championships-iRunFar-Start-600x400.jpg)
Firing off into the early morning, the start of the 2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships. Photo: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
![2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships - Dimitris Theodorakakos mile 19](https://irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-The-North-Face-Endurance-Challenge-50-Mile-Championships-Dimitris-Theodorakakos-mile-19-600x400.jpg)
Greece’s Dimitris Theodorakakos runs away from the sunrise at mile 19 and toward a sixth-place finish. Photo: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
![2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships - David Laney and Paddy O'Leary mile 19](https://irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-The-North-Face-Endurance-Challenge-50-Mile-Championships-David-Laney-and-Paddy-OLeary-mile-19-600x400.jpg)
David Laney (left) and Paddy O’Leary climb high in the Headlands. The pair would finish third and ninth, respectively. Photo: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
![2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships - Mile 19](https://irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-The-North-Face-Endurance-Challenge-50-Mile-Championships-Sunrise-mile-19-600x400.jpg)
Sun seekers on The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships course. Photo: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
![2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships - Magda Boulet mile 32](https://irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-The-North-Face-Endurance-Challenge-50-Mile-Championships-Magda-Boulet-mile-32-600x400.jpg)
Magda Boulet and a high-five tunnel at mile 32. Magda would run on to second place. Photo: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
![2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships - Zach Miller finish 1](https://irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-The-North-Face-Endurance-Challenge-50-Mile-Championships-Zach-Miller-finish-1-600x400.jpg)
Zach Miller battled all the way to the line for his win of the 2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships. Photo: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
![2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships - Hayden Hawks finish](https://irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-The-North-Face-Endurance-Challenge-50-Mile-Championships-Hayden-Hawks-finish-600x400.jpg)
An exhausted Hayden Hawks is helped by Zach Miller. Hayden and Zach dueled all day before Hayden finished second and two minutes back in his debut 50 miler. Photo: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
![2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships - David Laney finish](https://irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-The-North-Face-Endurance-Challenge-50-Mile-Championships-David-Laney-finish-600x400.jpg)
A moment of reflection for third-place David Laney just after finishing. Photo: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
![2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships - Jorge Maravilla finish](https://irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-The-North-Face-Endurance-Challenge-50-Mile-Championships-Jorge-Maravilla-finish-600x400.jpg)
Jorge Maravilla celebrates with his son, Joaquin, after his fourth-place finish for the second year in a row. Photo: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
![2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships - Ida Nilsson finish](https://irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-The-North-Face-Endurance-Challenge-50-Mile-Championships-Ida-Nilsson-finish.jpg)
2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Champion Ida Nilsson looks within following her finish. Photo: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein
![2016 The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile Championships - Ruth Croft finish](https://irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016-The-North-Face-Endurance-Challenge-50-Mile-Championships-Ruth-Croft-finish-600x400.jpg)
Third-place Ruth Croft manages a little smile amidst telling stories of pain at the finish line. Photo: iRunFar/Kirsten Kortebein