sometimes hard question

Okay, so to avoid hijacking the 180 cadence or sub 20 5k at 50 threads, I'll start a new one.

Short background:

- starting 4th season of endurance sports at age 46, never was an athlete before that, bottom end of MOP

- Two A races, HIM in July and half mary in October

- half mary goal is to take 10 minutes off my PR and hit 1:45

Most if not all of my running has been easy.  I added 800's once per week 5 weeks ago (times are in the header of my logs). My question is, if running 5x per week, is sometimes hard 1 day or 2 per week? My second question is, should I brick my long ride into an easy, short recovery run to get 6 runs in a week? Of course I will brick some of the rides into runs as part of my plan, I'm talking about weeks that don't call for bricks.

My ideal week is:

Mon AM - off / PM recovery ride

Tue AM - running fast (for me) 800's (medium distance) / PM Swim and strength

Wed AM - easy, short recovery run /  PM ride with some intervals

Thur AM - medium run 5-6 miles, this is the one that I want to know, easy or tempo? / PM Swim and strength

Fri AM - easy, short recovery run / PM happy hour :-)

Sat AM - long easy run, preferably trails / PM date night

Sun AM - long bike day / PM cookout

Of course life, work, and fatigue alter my ideal week regularly.

Thanks for your input!