Jean-Paul Hévin: Turin

After failing to find framboise eaux de vie, I got Jean-Paul Hévin's Turin from Isetan for 512 yen. This is a almond base with cassis (blackcurrant), on top of which is chestnut cream with a chocolate coating. It was simple but very well balanced in taste and well constructed, so I regard it as excellent. Still several cakes to try from there before the cakes disappear (particularly the Mont-pomme Caramel, which is only around weekends this month). This is two blurry pictures in a row; I better figure out what's going on with my auto-focus.

The run was the Gaien Walk (4.2 km by my Google Maps calculation, but 4.0 km officially) again and I failed to keep it closer to 8 rather than 9 km/h, though I was at 8 km/h on the runs to and from the ends. Tomorrow I'll rest, but when I run on Wednesday, 9 km/h will be the new normal (which means I weight it 9:8 against 8 km/h rather than 11:8). I'll see if I can maintain that speed consistently enough to starting building up some distance again, although my knees are telling me that there is no hurry.