How Ex-Athlete Rob Is Still On Pace to Keep People Running ; It Is the Season When Sales of Running Shoes Spike at the Derby Runner. Oliver Astley Catches Up with Director Rob Jefferies to Find Out How the Business Keeps Pace with Internet Retail and Whether the Olympics Will Affect Trade. Business Lunch

Derby Evening Telegraph › January 11, 2012

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IT takes a mighty appetite to go to an all-you-can-eat buffet and wind up being politely asked to leave by the management.

It was at a time when Derby athlete Rob Jefferies had ambitions of becoming one of the country's top middle-distance runners.

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How Ex-Athlete Rob Is Still On Pace to Keep People Running ; It Is the Season When Sales of Running Shoes Spike at the Derby Runner. Oliver Astley Catches Up with Director Rob Jefferies to Find Out How the Business Keeps Pace with Internet Retail and Whether the Olympics Will Affect Trade. Business Lunch

His training was burning off the best part of 4,000 calories per day and his companions were equally ravenous athletes who needed refueling.

Rob said: "It was a combination of a few too many trips to the buffet and the management thinking that there...

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