Hot and Humid or Humiliated?

Yet another humbling day. I stepped outside only to find it humid and hot already at 9am for the Team training. I thought I'd be good. I wanted to walk 8 miles. It shouldn't be a problem, right? Wrong! I started walking by myself and kept thinking about this article I read. I said that when doing long runs at least half should be a pace. I don't know why time is so important now. So I decided that at mile 3 I would walk 2, run 1 minute. By the time I got to the Team I was dehydrated, humiliated and just plain beat down. I had been gone 1 and 1/2 hours and only gone 6 miles! It took me 30 minutes to do the last 3 miles. You figure that one out. I felt horrible mentally and physically. I got my first blisters with some new shoes. This definitely isn't going to work.