Mick Woods

Michael 'Mick' Woods (born 15 February 1949 in Great Britain) is a former long-distance runner and a middle/long-distance running coach. He is currently a coach at Aldershot, Farnham & District AC and sports lecturer at St Mary's University in London. As an athlete, Woods ran internationally for Ireland and ran in over 70 marathons, with a personal best of 2:20.12. Woods is now one of his country's leading endurance running coaches. and has been extremely successful, putting numerous junior athletes into European Championships, GB teams and even the Olympic Games. Woods is currently coach to nearly 300 athletes, playing a huge role in developing international track and cross country athletes for Great Bitian. Woods has coached Jonathan "Jonny" Hay, Ellis Cross, Louise Small Anna Emilie Moller, Emily Hosker Thorn-hill, Phillipa Bowden, Niamh Brown, Phoebe Law, Amelia Quirk and many more, to international and national success.

In 2003, Woods was employed by UK Athletics as a performance coach.

In 2008, he was presented with the English Athletics Association Coach Of The Year Award.

In 2014, Woods was asked by Athletics Weekly about his retirement and his response was, "I like seeing athletes come through and improve and I coach athletes to race. As I get older, such a busy lifestyle is becoming more of a challenge, but I do not envisage retiring. Athletics is in my blood”.

Personal bests Marathon – 2:20.12 – London, England, 1983