Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I pouri ia mo ana mahi i te taumata o te ao, a ka ruarua ia mehemea ka taea e ia te rere o te paerewa ngaio. I tīmata ia ki te mahi i roto i te mahi iti-utu i roto i te wheketere kakahu engari tonu whakangungu ahakoa te haora roa, me te āhua mauiui o te mahi. Ko tētahi atu kaiwhakataetae Potukara, ko Jessica Augusto, i akiaki ia ki te whakarere i tana mahi, ki te arotahi tonu ki tana rere. I whai ia i te tohutohu, a, i angitu ia i runga i te atamira a motu i te tau 2007, i toa i te taitara 10,000 mita Portuguese. I tiimata a Félix ki te whakatuu i a ia ano i runga i te whakaaturanga hakinakina o te ao i te tau e whai ake nei: i mutu ia i te 72 i te 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, engari he pai ake tana haerenga i te 2008 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
i mutu ai ia i te 13th (te tuarua o nga kaihauturu tere o Europi i muri i a Luminița Talpoș).