The closing date for the Glasgow Open Graded Series

is Wednesday 21st December 2011

The Glasgow Athletics Association is happy to announce this festive season's Glasgow Athletics Association Open Graded Meetings. Please click here for a copy of the  entry form. There will be two Indoor Meets making up the Glasgow Indoor Championships. These Meets will take place in Kelvin Hall International Sports Arena. The Yuletide Meet, on Wednesday the 28th December 2011, followed by the New Year's Bash on Tuesday the 3^rdJanuary 2012. Information is available at www.glasgowathletics.org.uk Pre-event entry will be taken up until the 21st December for both meets. Entrants will need to complete an entry form and post the form, along with the appropriate remittance to Sean Watson at the address provided. Electronically you can send the completed form to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. // This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. // .Cheques should be made payable to The Glasgow Athletics Association. The cost per event by pre-entering will be £3 per event. Entry on the day will cost £5.00 per event. This year we are trying to encourage athletes to pre-enter and then we will list the entry lists before each meet.

As in previous years, we hope to have live results through the link to the Glasgow Athletics Association Website. www.glasgowathletics.org.uk

Following the success of the GAA Metric Miler Meets outdoors this summer, we will be holding a short series of paced 3,000m races within the Glasgow Indoor Open Graded Series 2011/2012. There will be a designated pace maker in each race and all races will be seeded on current power of 10 data. The purpose of this series of races is to provide two opportunities for fast 3,000m races in Scotland over the holiday period. The 3,000m is an endurance event that has not been contested frequently enough during the indoor season in Scotland and we hope by adding two additional opportunities we allow:

- Indoor specialists to use them as over-distance work before tackling shorter middle distance races as their season progresses

- Cross country runners can use it as speed work before refocusing on longer races as the cross country season come to a peak

Entries for the GAA Metric Miler Meet 3,000m races will be available via the BMC website and will be by pre entry only.