Inspirational Adult Improvers

Age 30, started studying chess seriously at 25 (around 1000 strength).  Hope to be 2100 OTB by end of the year.  15+hours a week on avg past 5 years studying/playing.  Having an OTB stronger player for guidance/coaching was important, Tactics puzzles are important, slow games are important, constantly analyzing your games is important, keeping the joy/motivation is important (I watch lots of chess videos, banter blitzes and such, chessnetwork, johnbartholomew, chessbrahs, simon williams, jan gustaffson) 

You are doing the right things--on the right path.

Don't know if you are studying endgames but you should study those--especially pawn endgames.

I was 27 when I attended my first OTB tournament 2/12 years ago. I had a 1200 rating. I'm now 30, and I just broke 1870. Hoping to make master some day. 

http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?16010030 

Very interesting post under the chesssummit-link. But I'm not sure whether or not I understand it correctly. Everything one has to do to reach the 2000+ mark is studying the mentioned books by Bain and Gillam over and over again?
The article has been moved here: https://chesssummit.wordpress.com/2016/08/05/better-late-than-never/

Not an expert, but did write about this topic:

Playing at 50+ - Chess.com

I started playing chess in 2014 here on chess.com at the age of 20.  My rating was around 600.  From 2014 to 2019 I went from 600 blitz to 2200 blitz.  I played my first tournament game in 2019 at the age of 25 and reached a rating of 2006 in early 2020.  I resumed playing again in late 2021 (after COVID closed down my chess club) and have gained almost 100 points to reach 2092 at age 28.   My goal is 2200 before 30. 

Congrats - very impressive.  What, would you say, helped you most to achieve this?

Thanks for sharing. That's very impressive. What were your chess experiences before joining chess.com?