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Ad executives who think 12-hour days and airport layovers are rough may have little to complain about compared with one agency staffer.

Tracy Gray, an account director with Gardner Geary Coll in San Francisco, worked a full-time schedule this spring and summer while preparing for Iron Man USA, one of the must brutal triathlons on earth. In addition to her account work, Gray trained three to four hours a day, six times a week. And in an average week, she rode 100 miles on her bike, ran 40 miles and swam 12,000 yards.

“This was something you can’t take lightly,” said Gray, 36.



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