Monte Café is home to São Tomé’s first bottled water plant, providing our runners with pure, delicious water. Has the Monte Café’s excellent organic coffee given extra energy to the runners this morning?

The second stage of GlobalLimits São Tomé – The Hemisphere Crossing started at 6 am with a slight downhill jog through the lush jungle of Monte Café. Runners passed several villages and plantations, glimpsing local life, and crossed beautiful waterfalls before finishing at the former Pousada of Bombaim.

Hiroki Okada from Japan is very strong today finishing 5th overall.

Today’s result 30km:

Men’s:

First: Yuya Takizaea/Japan

Second: Jackson Clementino/Sao Tomé

Third: Björn van Camp/Belgium

Women’s:

First: Teresa Lam/Hongkong

Second: Claire Thevenet/France

Third: Carmen Tyler/ UK

Yuya and Teresa overtook the overall lead now.

In the shorter devision of 22km Roma Puisiene was first again.

Tomorrow will be our first beach time!

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