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Rich, I've picked up a few pounds too. When I get out of my routine, I tend to overeat. Recently with the job transition etc., I've been out of my routine. So I skipped supper tonight.
Speaking of injuries and training regularly, I believe the key to success as a runner is simply avoiding injuries. If you can avoid injuries, the sky's the limit. If you can't avoid injuries, you won't amount to much. As a kid, I always knew I could outrun anybody. Sometimes I would tease the big mean kids, because I knew they couldn't catch me. 
But when you get to high school and try out for the cross-country team, then you find out whose body can take the pounding.
Same deal with Dark Colt. He wasn't as fast as I was, but he's a tough kid and still managed to make the varsity as a high school freshman, on his school's state champion indoor track team. He even won an indoor track varsity mile race as a freshman. But even then his knees were hurting, and he couldn't train as much as the other kids. He hasn't run a single race since. Now he's a junior. He still has dreams of running again with his friends. He had so much fun that freshman year. I was so happy for him: the boys and girls cross-country teams used to train together, and they had weekly spaghetti dinners together, and I've never been happier than when I saw him running through the fields with all his friends in the golden light of that fall season. I saw him doing the things I wished I could have done, belonging to the group and being successful, and having the fun I missed. But that was the only year he ran, and then it all went away. He couldn't run at all in the spring of his freshman year. Just to hang around his friends, he threw the javelin on the track team that spring, but he had absolutely no talent for that, and he hasn't gone out for any teams since.
Dark Horse
I'm a dark horse, running on a dark race course.
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