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Yesterday, U.S. runner Keira D’Amato broke the women’s U.S. marathon record at the Houston Marathon, setting a new record of 2:19:12. This time is 24 seconds faster than the previous record, set by Deena Kastor at the 2006 London Marathon.  There’s a lot of questions today about the stunning race, but runners everywhere are mainly asking — who is Keira …

Photo: Found Image Holdings Inc/Getty Images It’s the second week of January. The COVID-testing line is around the block, Betty White is dead, and there’s not much we can do about everything being pretty awful. But here, in my apartment, I have managed to wrest a modicum of control over the chaos of daily life. Because here, I wear house …

A post has gone viral after a Redditor explained a recent confrontation between her and a local pizza restaurant. Redditor, axthetix wrote about the experience on the subreddit “Am I The A**hole” in a post that has now been voted on over 11,000 times. Axthetix explained that over the weekend she ordered two pizza pies from a local restaurant. About …

Many runners are forced to reckon with damp terrain between the winter and spring, whether they’re sprinting down a city sidewalk or jogging through a muddy trail. “The most frustrating thing while running in the rain or through the snow is dealing with wrinkly, wet feet,” said Alli Felsenthal, founder of Run with Alli. She added that soggy sneakers — …

The best travel shoe bags can help your shoes last longer, but they also help keep your other clothing and belongings clean. After all, you wouldn’t want to stuff your everyday sneakers in with your sweaters and undergarments. By using a shoe bag set instead, you can keep potentially germ-ridden shoes separate yet still carry them within your travel bag …

Once a common practice for decades, then a novelty, the (almost) forgotten art of shoe-shining is making a steady comeback. The reason? Kevin Tuohy, founding partner of The Shoeshine Guild, a San Francisco-based drop-off service, thinks it’s because more men are becoming fashionably aware. Tuohy, a professional shoe-shiner of 20 years, has seen it all — and can trace trends …

A luxe Madison Avenue shoe shop tried to walk all over a well-heeled customer — asking nearly $7,000 for a custom order it repeatedly made incorrectly, the patron charges in a lawsuit. Justin Mills wanted a pair of handmade, $4,400 Italian shoes in the fall of 2019, before the pandemic struck, from Santoni North America, but never got what he …

The magnitude of Klay Thompson’s years-in-the-making return wasn’t lost on anyone at Chase Center Sunday evening.  Warriors forward Juan Toscano-Anderson referred to Jan. 9 as an “East Oakland holiday.” All of Thompson’s teammates wore his No. 11 jersey before the game began. Despite nursing a calf injury, Draymond Green ceremonially joined the Dubs lineup for only the tip-off – a …