Ayr Seaforth A.A.C.
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| Ground | Dam Park Stadium |
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| Website | ayrseaforth |
Ayr Seaforth Athletic Club is an athletics club located in Ayr, Scotland. The club trains at Dam Park track, situated outside Ayr College. The club hosts a club championship every year that allows up-and-coming athletes to compete against their teammates to see who has progressed the most through the year. Ayr Seaforth is Ayr's only athletics club offering athletes both young and old the opportunity to take part in many aspects of athletics. Seaforth has a very strong road running club but is also a strong track and field event club. Dam park track is made up of tartan track; the track has a signature red color it. This track runs for 400 m with eight lanes around the full length, along with this Dam park also hosts a high jump area, a triple jump pit, a long jump pit, a shot put area, a javelin area, a hammer throw area and a football pitch.
Brian Whittle is a British athlete who competed in both the 1986 European Championships in Athletics and the 1994 European Championships in Athletics; in both of these races he won gold. During his youth, he ran at Ayr Seaforth and Enfield Athletics club, where he began to train for the 4 × 400 metres relay; he since has moved to Enfield and Haringey Athletic Club.
Many other athletes have competed at national and international level.
Ayr seaforth has a number of very skilled and talented coaches that will give up their own time to help train the athletes to get them at their peak condition. The coaching has been split up into various classes; coaches will provide support in their chosen fields. The sprint team has a sprint coach and so on. The training that the coaches provide allows new athletes to improve the way in which they train and run.
For track and field athletes, the training regime is for two hours every Tuesday and Thursday, during the winter training period athletes are asked to take part in specialist winter training. The winter training helps boost an athletes endurance and stamina by getting athletes to go hill running (this usually takes place on Sundays). The track and field training usually have sessions of light speed training and heavy sets of endurance training this will allow the athlete to gain valuable skills to allow them to compete at a club or national level.
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