Éclat des Jours, Macaron Anana

I was thinking that I owed Éclat des Jours for a cake-off win, but apparently not, just I was putting them off because they're at the bottom of the quite exceptional shop list. No matter: under the new system, they were above all the shops in the exceptional shop list. To get a better selection of a new cake, I wanted to go on a weekend, and I did get something new, the Macaron Anana. It's as named, although the macaron is airy, which may be a thing in Tokyo shops now, and pineapple is different, though tropical fruit appear in cakes in the summer. It was good, but the design and flavors didn't stand out as something I wanted again.

This was about a 11 km one-way, bring the cake back by train. I did feel a need to test a new limit of walking again today, though I did incrementally increase the running bit to four 4-min intervals, plus around a few intersections. So far so good. Next walk and run will probably be Tuesday. I have to decide whether to finally visit Origines Chocolat for new cake or see whether Michalak at Omotesando still has the clam-shell type "cake" that disappeared from Isetan recently (the pistachio tart and milk chocolate tart have also disappeared, replaced by two more jar sweets, which I'm not willing to accept as comparable to cake, though I don't mind, since I've had the tarts and I agree that they were the least interesting of the cakes). Also today, I noticed a new bakery within the scope of the neighborhood running course out in Kojimachi, though I'm going to need to add another single-block loop to include it. It's pretty far out in the periphery, so I'll put off adding the loop until I get around to reviewing the adjacent loop.