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According to the current popular "polarized" model (very generalized) advice is to have no more than 2 hard workouts per week. So maybe two days of the 5x5, then (if you have time) would try to do 1 or 1.5 hrs in zone 2 the other days (ideally 3-4 per week). Do this for 3-4 weeks, then back off a bit for a week. If you have a training goal in mind, share it. Ideally you would periodize your training throughout the year too, so not always the same pattern
i.e. just the zone 2 rides through the winter, with maybe 1 5x5 every 10 days or so. Then as spring approaches, build endurance with making the hard efforts more zone 3, but building to something like 2 x 20, 2 x30, 2 x 45. Then as event/race season comes, do the zone 4 5x5's. This is a traditional model. You can adapt to your goals, but if you do the same thing year round you'll burn out and/or stagnate
Thanks for the insight! That’s some good information for me to consider. My current goal is weight loss and cardio improvement, I would like to do a triathlon sometime next year as well
For triathlon, those longer threshold (rather than Supra threshold) intervals will be more event-specific