Galen Rupp got what he wanted out of the Stumptown Twilight track meet Friday at Lewis & Clark College.
Rupp bided his time for most of a 5,000-meter race, then closed hard to win in 13 minutes, 54.88 seconds on a cool, dry evening before several hundred fans.
The time is a long way from his personal record of 12:58.90, but this wasn't about fast times or records.
Rupp is tuning up for next week's USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships in Sacramento, and what figures to be his final 10,000 on the track on U.