Ryoco and laps

Went over to Ryoco early, earlier than I intended, but I rid harder than my usual easy pace, so I had 25 minutes to wait, which was longer than necessary, but shorter than if I had tried the last two times I went by there. 10 minutes before opening might have been enough. There was one other person earlier than that and a few people by the time they opened, with people arriving after that. There was a sign on the door saying that they were no longer able to take orders for things like birthday cakes, at least until things calm down.

This time I got the Terrine Chocolat for 540 yen, which was very good, soft rich chocolate, although too soft for the vibration of cycling. Next was the Moelleux Chocolat for 380 yen, which is also soft chocolate, but the soft part is a core inside the cake, so no problem with vibration, although the whipped cream (?) dome did shift a little. This is always great, maybe their greatest. Finally, the Merveille for 540, which was chocolate and raspberry, but too much raspberry for me.

The running cake later. I went down to Meiji Ginju Gaien and did laps, this time with 8:30 as the goal and this time for 5 laps. Actually, I was under 8:00 each, so no problem speeding up things a little over last time (target 9:00/, actual about 8:40/; no wait, that was last time: this time was 8:30/, which I definitely did), although I started at about 7:30 and found myself slowing down after 3 laps. Maybe next timed laps will be 8:05/ or 8:10/ for 6 laps. Even though total, I did not do much more than 10 km, I could feel it afterward, so the speed was probably better than usual. I already decided yesterday that I did not need to do a long (35 km) run Wednesday, and now I'm thinking I don't need to do one Sunday either. I'd like to do something more like 20 or 21 km, still to a new cake shop, and time it with the intention of trying to maintain a pace. I'd have to pause it at red lights and navigation-check stops to get anything consistent, but I can do that.