Finished another
long run. Based on the finish, I could do longer, but some of the middle to end parts were unpleasant. Running along rivers is nice when there is water and toilets every 1 km, but when you're running on a dirt road through a park between two bodies of water for several kilometers toward the end, not so much (although there is a certain advantage to have no avenue of escape except continuing). Of course, my skin is not so great now, and I'd particularly like to figure out how to avoid abrasions next to my knees that seem to come from my running tights, maybe from when I pause and then start running again; that problem seems to be getting worse. Both of these are probably sweat related, as I seem to be at least somewhat allergic. Anyway, I think I need to practice organizing routes for my 25 to 30 km runs to be better before I try to extend my longer runs, if the latter are at all necessary. My next goal was to run long enough to get to Takao and then climb it, but it's hard to imagine doing that now.
Aplanos was okay. I got too greedy, which is a common problem after a long run. I tried to confirm that there was no coffee in the opera cake, they told me English was okay, but then called the part American dude from the back ("dude" because he had a general young man's accent that I can't really localize, although he said his mom was from Boston) when I actually tried to use English. I got the Baked Chocolate Supreme （焼きチョコ極）for 420+tax. It was good, although for some reason, I did not get a picture of it. Again, I should verify each picture as I take them. It's the bottom right one in the "lineup" from the link, if you are interested.
Next was the Caramel Chocolat for 410+tax. This was disappointingly bland.
Finally, the Gateau Opera Hazelnut for 440+tax just did not work for me, although it was probably just as good as the first. I shouldn't have bought three pieces, and I'm maybe getting tired of nuts, and am not that fond of milk chocolate. Now, I'm resolved to buy some tea to go with my cake. I'll try to eat less cake to compensate (financially).
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Sunday night, I went running, with no bicycle, assist and did the updated Daikanyama-chou--Ebisunishi--Hachiyama-chou--Nanpeidai-chou--Sakuragaoka-chou--Sarugaku-chou--Shibuya--Uguisudani-chou loop counterclockwise, so that's settled as long as I don't look at it. Meanwhile, I'm doing a review of would neighborhood course from the root, so that's been sucking up time and I've found problems I've avoiding dealing with and some new sites close to home, but I'm working on it. One part is the Jinguumae 4 loop, which just goes around one block (though a full-sized block) to pass two shops.
