I swallowed my pride and started with the Novice plan after decades of playing chess intermittently. No regrets, they are great plans as you know. Good luck with your plan, especially starting during the holidays 
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Kjenes's beginners study plan
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Dec 6, 2021
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#3
Rapid: 860
Puzzles: 1452
Daily: 912
Blitz: 487
Let's take puzzles first, where I've had a rapid increase overall since I came back to chess with an increase from 1185 november 28th to 1452 today, which I'm really happy with. Dailies haven't moved since I started the program at the beginning of last week, but that is because none of my games have finished, I expect to have 2-3 victories during the next few days.
Rapid has been the highlight of the last week. I blundered the opening of the first game of the week (opened with the B-pawn in stead of the C-pawn as black against E4 and didn't discover it until I had lost my horse turn 3 or 4..), and fought with a clear disadvantage that game, but I used this game to get more accustomed to playing on a limited timer. After that I have been undefeated the remainder of the week, in spite of a few missclicks. I still need to be more focused during the first 10 moves, I've had to claw my way back from a disadvantage at a few games but I felt confident I could turn it around, and when I succeeded that undeniably felt good. Analysing my games properly afterwards have helped me massively.
Looking forward to see if I can get better results in blitz this week, in a format that I have struggled the most with so far in the few games I have tried.
Dec 16, 2021
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#4
Rapid 860
Puzzles 1638 (+186)
Daily 1013 (+101)
Blitz 639 (+152) 70% winrate
I am in general really happy with my progress on blitz, as soon as I started to get more comfortable with the timeformat I started winning, and before the last 8 games I only had two losses (both as black, first time I've actually felt the tempo white gains from going first and feel the difference). But since I've entered the mid 600's my winrate has flatten out. The positive to take away from this is that I usually manage to gain an advantage through the opening and midgame, the negative is that I manage to blunder it away. I feel that the thing I need to do to get out of the 600's is to cut down of the number of big blunders. But the week of blitz gave me hope for the future.
Dailies has gone well as expected, and I am almost back to where I was before I stopped playing. I am starting to get quite satisfied with my endgame, especially in dailies, but also in blitz when I can avoid blunders, and I allways feel confident I can win the endgame if I enter it in a more or less even position.
Really satisfied with my progress in puzzles as well.
Looking forward to see what I can accomplish in rapid over the next week.
good luck! 
Jan 3, 2022
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#6
Rapid 895 (+35)
Puzzles 1649(+11)
Daily 1057 (+44)
Blitz 652 (+13)
The amount of blitz and rapid games has been a bit lackluster during the holidays, but studies and dailies have gone on full force.
I feel like my vision for different tactics are improving rapidly. I mainly loose on blunders that straight out looses pieces(guess I'll just have to keep working my vision to reduce the amount of those), and a underevaluation of pawns that leaves me in trouble in the endgame when I am equal on pieces but down on pawns. As a consequence one of my main focuses the last couple of days have been pawns, which has lead me in a much better position pawnwize in some games.
I am excited to see how my progress will be when I get more into the rapid and blitz games again, I think getting more game time should be more of a focus of mine going forwards.
Jan 12, 2022
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#7
Rapid 1001(+141) 83% winrate
Daily 1085 (+72) 78% winrate
Blitz 684 (+45) 80% winrate
Points in parantheses is rating rise over the last week.
What primarily loses me games are one move blunders, very often a blindspot for a long range bishop or queen. At least two of the last 3 victories I've had in blitz has been recovery from a lost position where I blundered a minor piece and then slowly fought myself back in the game. I find this much easier in blitz than in the slower time formats(naturally). I am generally playing at quite a high speed and trying to save my time for critical positions, which helps me nearing the end of games, but I suspect this might be the reason behind at least some of my blunders, playing too fast.
I haven't bothered to register my puzzle rating as I primarily does puzzles via a beginners course on ChessKing and a workbook on chessable.
It will be full focus on blitz this week, and hopefully I will be able to reduce the number of blunders I do against stronger or equally rated players so I can stop the "stagnation" I feel I hit at around 650. My primary goal for the next few weeks is to get my blitz on par with my other game modes.
Even though my blitz were only 487 and Rapid 713 when signing up for this plan, my daily was 1080 before I got burned out and dropped a lot of dailies at the same time forcing my rating down. This combined with my daughter taking the novice study and me going to study the games from that book with her to help her understand them better made me feel like taking the beginners plan was the right choice for me. Looking forward to getting more comfortable with timed format in stead of just puzzles and dailies, and are excited to see where these 12 weeks of more focused practice will take me.