No running again today (maybe I should have run Friday night, but there was no budget for cake and I ran Thursday night, so I just worked out inside), but I went today by bike and rode farther than I needed to. Still, I feel like I should workout some more inside again, although I did work on cleaning the balcony, a job I've been putting off for months, so that sort of counts as far as exertion.
Went to Paris S'éveille, since they seem to be most underrepresented (I still need to get back to Takagi and decide whether they really belong among the greats). The first cake was Everest, for 580 yen, which is a cheese mousse cake with raspberries. Or it might be called a Charlotte with cheese mousse filling. Either way, this is very good for the type (or otherwise), but a tough sell for appealing to my tastes and doesn't rise to great. It's not really what I should be getting when I visit this shop, since they have so many other delicious things.
The other cake was the Fig Orange, for 620 yen, which is as advertised, except, as is obvious from the picture, it is a chocolate cake with layers of ganache. This is really great cake. The fig excellently complements the dark chocolate and its texture complements that of the rich cake and ganache. Then, the accent given by the orange clearly raises the level. Be warned, though: this is really rich and heavy (which is a good thing), so I recommend splitting it with someone or having a book and/or beverage to stretch out the time and flavor. Not that I got tired of it, but it seemed like a lot of cake just eating it by itself outside where I did not want to linger.
I also verified the existence of Addict au Sucre as a patisserie one station north, although I don't have any information suggesting that I particularly need to go there. Just one for the list of not yet visited places added to the map.
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Had a medium run of 21 km visited various shops to see first hand what their June selection is. The main block (more than 12 km) was just getting to Limevert, for which I won't again demonstrated to myself that I shouldn't try to follow Google's route, because all the streets around Umegaoka are just too random. That was 9 km/h, although the remaining part seemed to be 10 km/h (guess the sports drink was more effective than I expected). Trying a back way between Ryoura and Bigarreaux, though you can't tell well from the picture, there is a reasonably large garden tucked inside this residential area. I went by a block-sized orchard as well (400 yen per 1 km, the sign said, I think, but not sure for what), but that was probably on the other (northwest) side of Ryoura.
Following south from Bigarreaux, the road briefly becomes quite nice, though that is not that surprising for the neighborhood, which is relative upscale. The run ended at Paris S'éveille, where I procured Fig Orange for my cake-off and then took the train to Isetan to get Valencia from Sadaharu Aoki. The Fig Orange is a pretty solid cake, so it probably could have survived further running, but as I've complained before, I've been over doing it this week, so I stuck to the plan of not running that part. Tomorrow I may do 42 km by bicycle, without buying cake to prepare for the next cake-off (as early as Tuesday). 
Unfortunately, I was not feeling the greatness of the Fig Orange. It's heavy on the fig, which is fine in general, and just plain heavy, which I guess I was just not as into as the previous time. The Valencia is the orange version of their standard layered cake with cream, chocolate, nuts, ..., and the formula works and is still great, as far as I can tell, so they take this match-up.
