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How do I avoid overtraining?
Let's see ... what does your DNA look like? What exact foods do you consume? What is your blood make-up like? How are your digestive enzymes? Are you allergic to anything? How much air pollution is where you live? How does the water test for chemicals? What is the nutrient density of the soil in which the plants you were going to consume grow? How much sleep do you get, and how much of that is deep sleep/REM stage? What are your stress levels like?
Just kidding. But seriously, there is no way for anyone to tell if you are overtraining by some text on the web. It is different for everyone. Overtraining is the culmination of all you do - what you eat, your state of mind, your training. What may be overtraining for one person might be fine for another. We talk about "overtraining" but the Lewis & Clark expedition pulled a boat from sunrise to sunset daily upstream from the shore. That would be prolonged cardio for hours every day. But the men survived and even made the trek back across the continent. So was it overtraining?
My point is that overtraining is a term not well understood. If you mean ... will you gain muscle? It is hard to say. Will you gain or lose strength? Will you experience fatigue? The only real way to tell is to try it and keep a detailed journal. Learn for yourself what your limits are and work within them.