Pierre Hermé, Tarte Infiniment Citron

Today I got my cake from Isetan first again and then went running. I planned to do a loop around the Akasaka Palace course at a constant level of effort with the idea of timing the different segments to see the proportions for designing a trainig run, since I'm going to go much fast on the down-slope parts than the up slope parts and the difference. However, I took a detour down to Tokyo Midtown after the first 550 m stretch and then returned, so I found myself far from sustaining the same level of effort and gave up at the north-most point, though I came by back streets that maybe did not save me any horizontal distance, although they limited the slopes. Today, I still did 8.4 km at around 9 km/h.

The cake was Tarte Infiniment Citron, which is a kind of lemon tart. Note sure what all the parts, but there are heavier layers as you go deeper, starting with a very light layer (but with a kind of crust, like on a macaron) on the outside and moving down to lemon custard or thick cream, with some lemon comfit mixed in. The little disk on top has a sort of lemon cross-section pattern on it and is hard (probably mostly sugar). The cake was excellent quality and I like lemon once in a while as something different, but next time I'll try to get the more obvious choice of Mille-feuille Caramel. I've got until the 26th, which should be enough time.