Your weekends are for pickleball. Everything else is arranged around that. Long runs go on Thursday — the day furthest from your weekend court load. Hard running (tempo, intervals) goes Tuesday. Monday is recovery.
Run days are flexible. The weekday a run is listed on is a suggestion — what matters is hitting the runs and keeping at least a day between them (and a day between a court session and the long run). Tap a run to check it off.
Before the plan your easy runs averaged 166 bpm — too hard. Four weeks in you're averaging ~147 bpm with almost no drift, which is exactly the adaptation we want. Keep it there: easy runs stay under ~150 bpm, fully conversational. Pace is whatever that gives you (currently ~10:00–10:30/mi) and it will get faster on its own as the engine builds. Save hard efforts for the marked key sessions.
It's ambitious from a once-a-week base, but a year is enough to take a real shot. Reassess at the end of Phase 3 (Week 40, early May 2027): if tempo runs say sub-8:00 is on, push; if 8:15–8:30 is smarter, that's still an excellent first half. Finishing healthy, pickleball intact, beats chasing a pace and getting hurt.