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p:”High achievers” are attracted to triathlons, says Juan Andrade (above), president of The Hartford’s property/casualty operations and an Ironman veteran.

N.J. agent Tom Heist (center) poses after a triathlon with fellow insurance professionals Ken Bull (left) of The Iroquois Group and Glenn Watkins of Cumberland Insurance Group.

Emmanuel Albaret, an account executive at Hunter Insurance in R.I., approaches the finish line during the Providence half-Ironman in 2007. Triathletes make good agents, he says, because they learn to “never quit.”