Pierre Hermé: Mille-feuille Infiniment Caramel

Tried to run past P. La Vie Douce, but did not make it before they closed at 7 pm, so then I ran down to the Akasaka Palace course and did one lap. I broke it down into 8 parts to try to get a feeling for how to balance the different sections with their different grades, though some parts that I measured had varying grades (the fastest 200 m is lumped with a flat and then slight upslope 200 m). Overall, I was 8.5 km/h, but over the 3.3 km course, my speeds on parts from 170 m to 800 m long corresponding to major corners or (barricaded) entrances varied from 9.5 km/h to 7.4 km/h (actually, these two parts follow each other in that order, before and after the turn at the southeast corner). It'll try to learn the different distances for the parts and calculate ahead of time what I need to aim for in future training runs, but it's going to take some practice.

For cake, I had gone to Pierre Hermé and gotten the Mille-feuille Infiniment Caramel, which is one of their monthly "Fetish" cakes, so it will be gone in about a week and a half (they start each Fetish late in the calendar month). This was definitely excellent, being a mille-feuille with caramel flavored mascarpone cream as the filling. It was not disappointing, but it did not seem to surpass their 2000 Feuilles, which would be hard to do.