27 km to Limevert

Well, I complained that my route was not as long as I wanted and spaced when it came time to turn to follow the main river and took the north branch instead, so it became long enough. I thought it looked familiar. Guess I'll have to try again. Following #8 Ring Road south was not that great, so I think next time I'll consider a more navigationally complex route, despite having proved where that gets me. And I only was okay because the branch still arrived at #8 Ring Road, just there was no station there, so I knew something was off. Time was about 2 h 45 min, which is a little surprising because I thought I was barely doing 7 min/km at the 10 km mark, where I had only gotten a little lost and had to make a one major detour. I'm pretty sure Google isn't over-measuring, because it is not taking account of all the detours (which I remembered from before: they aren't finishing that construction through the park along that river very quickly) and it isn't great at following river paths anyway for the find route function (since at the end I want to tell it a route, not the other way around). Now I'm going to have to find somewhere I want to go that uses the original river. On the plus side, I should really follow it all the way to Kichijoji Station rather than bail at #8 Ring Road. Pretty well demonstrated that I could exhaust myself on a long run without doing 45 km.

On the cake side, the good news is that Limevert is actually a patisserie with a cafe rather than the reverse. They just opened this year, so not much record on the web on them and their website does not show the cakes I chose and I didn't take notes or photos there, so I'm going to have to guess somewhat on the names (and change them to the Latin alphabet). I'll call the chocolate cake Raryu (which is what I remember) and the other Chiboust Caramel, although the name of the latter had another word.

The Raryu is a basic but good chocolate cake, steam-baked, if I understand correctly, with ganache between cake layers. Very dense chocolate and good, although I don't really need that much plain chocolate cake, so half would have been fine. The Chiboust Caramel is caramel Chiboust above a custard (I think; I was exhausted and had a nap now) tart and leaky (in the box and on the plate, as you can maybe see). Also very good. I definitely recommend visiting them if you're in the area and how they'll be successful.