Ok. I going over this again for the hopeless yahoos on here.
This is not a sport. It is a chemistry experiment with pretensions of pretending to be a sport. The chemistry is simply too powerful for any natural athlete to compete with.
Now it used to be that in cross-country and distance there was no money, or nil or internet celebrity, and high school and college distance running was relatively clean. Whereas high school and college sprinting was always dirty because the money and the chance at Olympic glory was present early. Plus steroids are much more detectible. High school distance athletes were just regular kids coached by the social studies teacher. They were not part of pro training groups with pro coaches with the pro corruption.
The thing about a natural athlete is that they suffer ups and downs. They have off races, tired legs. They get anxiety because their confidence is not being artificially boosted by chemicals. They sometimes falter. Whereas ped using athletes never seem to have an off day. They may lose, but they are always on.
Now as it turns out Tuohy's high school celebrity works against her. Because if she gets caught, she has something to lose, particularly a college coaching career which in the long run is much more lucrative then a short term stint at pro fame where you going to get annihilated by the shameless East Africans anyway. Plus Tuohy always seemed too normal for this. Whereas dopers have a certain personality type, vapid, sociopathic, antisocial, win at all costs, shallow, etc. Which pretty much characterizes the typical American "late bloomer" who has sudden epiphany at 24. And maybe the now emerging high school fame seeker. But who knows.