My New and Improved Plan

As noted in my prior installment, I was unable to finish the level 70+ problems in the second circle on schedule. Instead of taking extra days to complete all 1209 problems in the second circle, I decided to move on to circle three. I was considering only doing problems through level 60 on circles three+, but instead I decided to allocate time to the level 70+ problems, and just do as many problems as possible on the days allocated for those problems, and then move on to the next circle. I think this is a good balance between the need to move forward with the program and the benefits of stretching to solve very difficult problems.

From an implementation standpoint, I think this will work well up until the last two circles or so. After that, I won't have entire days dedicated just to the super-hard problems. I guess I'll figure it out when I get there. Until then, I'll just figure out the average time it takes me to do problems in each circle and allocate the same amount time for "as many as possible" in level 70+. We'll see how this works out.

Status Report
I did 200 problems yesterday on day 1 of circle three. I got 100% for level 10 (woohoo!) and 99% on level 20 so far. Here's my planned schedule:

Circle Three Schedule
                                  Per
Day   Date                        Day  Total
---   --------------------------  ---  -----
1     Tuesday, March 22, 2005     200    200
2     Wednesday, March 23, 2005   150    350
3     Thursday, March 24, 2005    110    460
4     Friday, March 25, 2005       80    540
5     Saturday, March 26, 2005     70    610
6     Sunday, March 27, 2005       70    680
7     Monday, March 28, 2005       70    750
8     Tuesday, March 29, 2005      56    806
9     Wednesday, March 30, 2005    56    862
10    Thursday, March 31, 2005     56    918
11    Friday, April 01, 2005       53    971
12    Saturday, April 02, 2005     50   1021
13    Sunday, April 03, 2005       50   1071
14    Monday, April 04, 2005       48   1119
15    Tuesday, April 05, 2005      46   1165
16    Wednesday, April 06, 2005    44   1209

Anyway, we'll see how this goes...