10 KM from Death

I made a small change in one of my training routes yesterday morning, and it has made all the difference. As I said before I live in a hilly area and before, the first half was relatively flat-ish and the second half of my route was all downhill. So, yesterday morning I ran it in the opposite direction and had a long steady incline for the first 30 minutes or so, and then from pretty much flattened out again, but I thought I was going to die. I'm wanting to get this run over with so that I can know how I do, and then have something to work towards (i.e. beating my old time). Two of my friends and I are going to go down to the City on Saturday morning and run the race route (well, we may not run all of it, but we at least want to be familiar with it - even if we stop a bit early for a croissant...) Two weeks and two days to go...