Catching up

Here is the thing. My two friends who are both rated in a range of 2000 - 2100 are my age but started playing like 5 -6 years ago, so they are talented. Me not so much couse i started a yer ago and rated 1600. I train ( following my own made schedule so its not random learning) like 5 hours a day and they spend like 1 hour watching games and anylising (so do i besides something else over the day course. year from now i will have like 1600 hours of directed study according to theirs 300, how close will i be to reaching 2000????

i'm not sure anyone can give you an accurate answer.

what is your age? that matters a good a lot. What is your training? that matters even more.

Don't worry about amassing some arbitrary prescribed number of hours...that stuff is inane.

speaking of this at one point in my "chess career" i started this regimented training schedule where i would do X number of problems and i would look at x number of games and play x number of games. It really killed my enjoyment of chess. now i just do whatever I feel like and i've been improving a good bit.