13 km run again to Maxim's de Paris: Tours a la fraise

The run was okay. It was more or less the same route as before but I tried to trim some boring parts (no hills) so that I could go farther but ran into the demonstration shown below across from the Diet Building. I think I'll starting coming up further north, which is an even steeper ascent but a little shorter. Also, I need to run on the inside of the moat around the imperial grounds, because for the other side, the road around there is too wide and fast and drivers don't want to slow down for pedestrians when using the turn lane.

The cake was Tours a la Fraise from Maxim's de Paris [Closed shop], which was okay. Under the topping are three layers: strawberry mouse, sponge cake, and chocolate crunch, for 540 yen. It was the closest that I could get to their signature mille-feuille, which even the "mini" version is 1800 yen. If I got a group of people together who want to try it, I would buy it, but otherwise I need to spend my cake money more frugally. Maybe you can get a one-person slice if you go inside the restaurant. 

Anyway, it was good but not more than that. It is still a convenient place that is open late, but there are several other choices that I like better, so it's not a priority to get back there.

13 km run to Maxim's de Paris: Cinq Chocolat

[Update] This shop seems to have closed.

Today, I jogged 13 km. The route featured Meijijinguugaien （明治神宮外苑), which is used as a jogging loop by many people and went by the the National Stadium, until recently (Tokyo 2020 preparations), Akasakagoyouchi (赤坂御用地), up Niisaka (?) 新坂, just for fun, around the Diet Building (国会議事堂), across from the route around the Imperial Palace (皇居), and around the outside of Hibiya Park (日比谷公園). So lots of green, some slopes, and lots of cops.


The cake stop was Maxim's de Paris (マキシム・ド・パリ) Ginza shop (it's a restaurant, but there is a cake counter out front of B2 of the Sony building inside the underground passage tunnel) for 648 yen, the Cinq Chocolat ("five chocolate") cake (サンク・ショコラ ): chocolate mousse ( ショコラムース), chocolate sponge (ショコラスポンジ), chocolate crunch (ショコラクランチ), milk chocolate cream (ミルクショコラクリーム, and chocolate glazing (グラサージュショコラ）, shown here. It was well made, but about half would have been enough for me, which is often the case. I guess I'm getting tired of chocolate mousse, which dominated. I definitely want to go back for something else, especially since this was not their specialty, which is the mille-feuille (ミルフィーユ).