she is not quilty unless she is caught. although, i could believe that about mary. i would define mary as a sub-elite runner. she is not good enough to make an olympic team but good enough to make money on the roads at sub-elite level races. there are many sub-elite level races and there is money to be made at them. for half marathon and marathon races, a win could get you between $2,000-5,000. sometimes less and sometimes more. if you race enough times during the year, you can make a solid living. i personally know a few of these sub-elite runners. some male and some female. they pretty much run the same races year after year, get similar results, and run similar times. going into the race they know who is going to be there and what their odds are of making x amount of money. it is all about money to them. the problem with all of this is that even though the races say they drug test, they usually don't or might. i am assuming because of cost to conduct the testing. to the athlete, the upside is a lot greater than the downside and the more often they race, the faster they run, the more money they can make. if they get caught, oh well. a former peachtree 10k winner and cheater is now at all of these sub-elite level race making money. he often races with the same group of africans and 40+ year old russian women from florida. to top it all off, most or all of their travel expenses are paid by the race organizers. obviously, i don't know if they are cheating until they are caught. to me it seems like the only people who benefit are the cheaters/potential cheaters. the race organizers must not care about their money or clean athletes if they keep inviting these athletes back and not conduct drug testing.