1-min intervals to Toshi Yoroizuka: MT Noix

Today, I jogged down to Tokyo Midtown using 1 min comfortable, 1 min hard running intervals, 15 total. The Toshi Yoroizuka there had the cake that I was looking for the other day, MT Noix (actually, in the shop, this has become "Em(p)ty Noah" phonetically for some reason, but "Noix" makes more sense as far as being a nut, even though I'm not sure that there is any noix---walnut---in it; the "MT" is "Midtown") for 570 yen. This is hazelnut cake and hazelnut praline cream along with chocolate cake and nuts and chocolate on top. It is a great cake. Neither the praline nor the chocolate is too strong, so I don't get tired of it halfway. It moved around a little in its base, so there are some loose nut pieces on the plate; it's kind of too tall for its own good.

Running slopes and stairs to Libertable: Crystal

The rain stopped most of the time and otherwise was not significantly different from the rain of sweat. Still, it was a late start due to work, so I had an excuse to not stray too far. I did my usual steepest slope loop near the Soka Gakkai campus/complex three times and did two and a half times around the pair of stairways at the nearby main neighbor shrine, and some other regular slopes before heading around Akasaka Palace and visiting Libertable again for the Crystal, which is a shu cream which is mostly hazelnut praline cream, which is different. For 388 yen, it is pretty reasonable and very good. It had been since Sunday that I had had a professionally made cake, so I would have bought the Zenith if they had had it, but this was still a good choice.

I also completed the rum banana tart and have to say, eh. I like bananas in my yogurt for breakfast, but I guess not otherwise. I've never had anything else with bananas where I appreciated them, just I had this tart recipe (from the cookbook that came with my oven) and wanted to try it. The custard and shell are still fine. I wonder whether I could substitute peaches. Run and peaches go together, don't they? I've still got 80 ml of rum, or about 5 more 14 cm tarts. 

Almost forgot that I took the next picture. I correctly judged that it would still be clear at night with my shaky hand. This is on Aoyama Street near where the loop around Akasaka Palace grounds runs into it going clockwise.