Career
He is currently a coach at Aldershot Farnham & District Air Corps and sports lecturer at Street 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 the nation"s leading endurance running coaches.
After Mick Wood"s successful career in running he said "I ran 2:20.12 for the Marathon, but I know if I had myself as a coach, I would"ve been much, much better".
Woods is based at Street Mary"s University in London. He has been coaching since 1986 and has been extremely successful, putting numerous junior athletes into European Championships, Great Britain teams and even the Olympic Games.
In 2003, Woods was employed by the UKAthletics as a performance coach. 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”. Marathon - 2:20.12 - Ireland.
