Saturday evening: 15+ km to Sourire

The recipe that's been looking at is a Marjolaine, so I Googled the name and thought I'd try one. It showed up at Sourire, which I've been to a couple times and gotten a tart and maybe cheese cake, so never really regular cake, for whatever reason. They are open until 8 pm and I can get there in an hour, so I should consider them for longer runs, which is what I did and tried out the new watch (but used the old shoes). I did alternating 1 minute intervals (pausing the timer where necessary at stoplights) and managed 10. I had my usual problem with my left foot, though: when I run hard, I apparently don't run well and do some damage. I can run 40+ km without problems (because I never run that hard) of that sort, but a few hard intervals are a problem. I may need to see a professional and get some running advice.

Added Sourire (as well as others for later posts), which is near Youtenji, to the map. This picture I can post. Marjolaine is hazelnut Japonaismasse cake with praline cream and whipped cream layers. I was expecting a stronger taste from the cake part, since the hazelnut powder can be the most expensive part, but you can also get cheap stuff too, which I'm not sure works the say, so maybe that's what happened here. I would have expected the cake to be firmer and darker, although as far as firmer, you are supposed to add the filling and then give it a day for the moisture to soak into the cake part, so maybe this is just the way it's supposed to be. It was not bad. In fact, it was very good, although, as I said, it was not what I was expecting, and less whipped cream would have been better for me (which is maybe why I don't like Japanese [strawberry] short cake, which tends to be a pile of whipped cream with strawberries and little tasteless sponge cake inside). It was 480 yen, which is reasonable.