La Base Secrète du GAMIN: Winter Mousse au Chocolat

Had enough time to try a longish weekday run to a new shop, La Base Secrète du GAMIN, which is new within the last year but is actually part of a whole GAMIN group of restaurants. This one is down in the north Sengenjaya Station shopping area (you can just see it from the north east-west shopping street if you look diagonally at the right moment). Shortest way is through Shibuya Station, so I looped down the usual way turning past Aoyama Gakuen University (which has a huge mural poster up on their Ekiden running team) to the next crossing sound and came back (although I missed a turn and went a little bit out of my way on the way there). Windy today, and cooled off fast. I might have seen some slow flakes, or maybe just it was they way the streetlight reflected off stray drops in the air. I managed 11 km/h there, but with the huge sack they have me (with a huge box, relative to the cake), only 9 km/h back (over 8 km each way). That's okay. Yesterday I ran without cake, doing about 10 km total but earlier on did eight 200 m speed intervals with 14.0 km/h as the target, but five were actually 15.0+ km/h and one 16.0+ km/h, which is as much as I need of those faster speeds for now, so I'll either need to get onto doing 15 km at 11 km/h at the Moat track, or see whether I can keep up 13 km/h for intervals of 1000 m. Anyway, since I did speed and then slow jogging, that maybe counts as fat-burning training, though the method I heard was two 1000 m (separated by 3 minutes) intervals fast enough to be out of breath.

The cake, in it's huge box and bag, blown horizontal by the wind, did not stay stuck to it's plastic base, but for a mousse cake, it was fairly firm, so it was less battered than it might have been. It's mousse, but maybe with meringue for firmness? It's flavored with Yuzu and orange Bavarian cream, which is where the winter part comes from. The chocolate flavor is not strong for a mousse, but it's there and harmonizes well. It's easy to for me to say that this was definitely good (and better than a doughnut), but only over time did I final decide that I should call it excellent, requiring me to get back there fairly soon (although the selection is not huge, so I don't have to be in that big a hurry, but maybe if varies).