It's totally anecdotal, but a particularly unpleasant psylicibin trip prompted me to quit drinking.

I haven't had a drink in almost a decade.

it took me a long time to build up.

Atm my daily runs are about 7-8 miles. I dont really have ambitions beyond half marathons or 10k s.

I listen to audio books and plotted out a nice course, it is really pleasant.

Good luck, also, a huge part of my working up was walking parts of distance. Even if you walk 95 percent of it, get the distance that you plan for. If 2 miles is it, and you half to walk mile and a half, you are still making progress.

I have been an off/on runner for years. I used to be a heavy drinker, cigarette/weed smoker, and random drug consumer(cocaine, pills, hallucinogens, mdma, etc., etc.. Which after bad benders or long stretches of debauchery, running was my "I am gonna get it together" activity.

I quit everything except for weed almost ten years ago. I have been building up my running for the last few years. Which I mainly use edibles with cannabis anymore as it interferes with my running.

It has become such an important part of my daily routine, I would be lost without it. It is no longer something I am trying to get through, as much as something I genuinely want to be doing.

It is amazing how the body can recover from years and years of abuse.

We do not inhabit anywhere in the solar system outside of earths orbit.

Also, you say you understand the scale, but I dont think you understand the scale.

I absolutely think if/when we get to other planets we will trash them. Though none of it will matter on a cosmic scale in any way. like we could have a galaxy wide civilization of hundreds of planets all spinning out garbage with no attempt at recycling and still it wouldnt even register as a rounding error as far as calculating the amount if space it occupies.

We are great at trashing planets. It would take gods to trash intersteller space in a noticable way.

I know it isnt practical.

I am saying if humanity could create enough waste that it was a problem in the vacuum of space, pushing it towards the sun would solve the problem.

Which we do not have the means to pollute the vacuum of space, so I am saying if we did, the technology to send the debris in a specific direction would probably not be a far stretch.

I am not defending humanity here, but I dont know if you really understand the scale of just our solar system. We could not possibly create enough garbage, even if humanity made it its sole preoccupation, to noticably "pollute" our solar system.

Also, if we could get it into orbit on a trajectory to the sun, that problem would solve itself.

Oceans are barely puddles next to the open space just between the inner planets.