It's in December, right? You have four full months to
prepare.
Since you're not starting from ground zero, then that's a good
thing. Slowly start from, say, 2.4km and slowly ramp up the
distance week by week until you can clear 10km easily.
Since this is your first time running 10km, just aim to finish
the race in one piece. Give yourself a reasonable goal - say,
finish the race in 1hr 45min.
Try going to websites like runnersworld.com. They should have
week-by-week training guides for all sorts of distance races.
nope, i did it in 2005 and back then i was doing 10km runs 3-4
times a week. reduce my runs (significantly i might add) last year
coz i couldn't feel the ground and was tripping even while walking.
but since that problem has been cleared, doing about 1-2 runs a
week. the cross trainer and weight training was never outta the
pic.
so have you signed up yet?