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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〔(afd.org.uk )〕 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 the nation's leading endurance running coaches.〔 ==Coaching career== 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 St Mary's University in London. He has been coaching since 1986 and has been extremely successful, putting numerous junior athletes into European Championships, GB teams and even the Olympic Games. Woods is currently coach to many GB athletes including Olympian Steph Twell, 10,000m, European cross country champion Emelia Górecka, and international athlete ("Jonny" Hay ). In 2003, Woods was employed by the UKAthletics 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”. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mick Woods」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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