The ageless wonder gets the Olympic standard at 10000 at Payton Jordan...

PALO ALTO—Bernard Lagat’s (left/photo by Paul Merca) debut at 10000 meters was everything that the fans at the Payton Jordan Invitational at Cobb Track & Angell Field on the campus of Stanford University looked for.



Lagat looked surprisingly relaxed as the large field of 28 runners got going on a very calm evening in the Bay Area.



Through the first 9000 meters, he was running steady,