1 min/1 min intervals to Origines Cacao

Ran doing 1 min/1 min intervals (1 minute of not fast enough strain muscles to 1 minute of as fast as I can maintain safely for a minute). Now that I've gotten used to intervals, this seems better than 30/20/10 intervals, although I don't get the same maximum speed, of course. My legs were almost shaky waiting at the last light before the cake shop.

To Origines Cacao, I managed about 5'34''/km (counting only the running part) doing intervals, but 6'05''/km running back to the 100 yen shop normally, but with cake, which is pretty good for me. Of course, even doing top speed there was a guy in front of me maintaining distance at what looked like an easy run for him, so I'm never going to be really fast. Route currently showing on the map, as well as the cafe Knenet, which Joshi Plus visited so I might get over there some time.

The cake was a new one (not even on the Tabelog rating site yet): Tarte Chocolat for 518 yen. As usual, not many options: other choices were a cake I thought that I've already posted about, but apparently not (I was confused after running, as always); chocolate pudding (under some French name) in a glass bottle; and something pudding enough that it needed a dish with sides but not pudding enough that it needed a bottle. Actually, at this point, I would have tried any of the other three too, since the non-cakes were under 400 yen and probably good.

The chocolate tart was great. It was simple, just chocolate (although maybe ganache) soft enough to easily cut but too firm to call mousse, under a chocolate glaze and on top of a biscuit. Note watery but not so rich or so sweet that I got tired of the taste before I ran out of cake, although I would be happy to share half with someone (if I could get half of something else). The little decoration was quite candy-like and a little crispy rather than truffle-like; maybe caramel, but mostly sweet. It would definitely be worth getting by itself.