Making Friends

Anyone have trouble at this ?
Moved into the area a while back, didnt really know anyone before i got here and ive been so frigging busy since then ive not really had a chance to go out much (being shy as hell doesnt help tbh). Mostly oldies down our road so its a bit difficult to get on a level with them. Anyone found themselves in this position before, what have you done to make it a bit better
Routine:
Get Up
Study
Lunch
Maybe Out On Bike
Dinner
Study
Repeat Mon - Sun
Moved into the area a while back, didnt really know anyone before i got here and ive been so frigging busy since then ive not really had a chance to go out much (being shy as hell doesnt help tbh). Mostly oldies down our road so its a bit difficult to get on a level with them. Anyone found themselves in this position before, what have you done to make it a bit better
Routine:
Get Up
Study
Lunch
Maybe Out On Bike
Dinner
Study
Repeat Mon - Sun
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Where are you and what are you studying?
Am studying telecomms
Phone a friend?
Other than that a cycle club is a good idea. CTC Rides are very slow and super sociable, think 1 hour on the bike, 3 hours in a pub, 1 hour home. Usually a very fiendly bunch unlike some of the normal roadie clubs I've been to.
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost;
Than never to have loved at all."
Alfred Tennyson
When I first moved to a new area, I house-shared. Still am in fact due to the exhorbitant price of houses - but met a lot of mates that way, some very good ones.
Also agree with Nolf, if you can find similar age groups.
Hard to meet people on the course as im studying from home
http://www.aylesburycc.org/
Failing that, lots of cyclists haunts around that way:
- Worlds End Garden Centre near Tring
- Cafe in The Woods, Aston Hill
- The Barn, Marsworth (near the reservoirs)
get to any of them around 11am Sat or Sun and you'll meet roadies in abundance
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Probably not a good idea to take the combination too far, though - I speak from bitter (no pun intended) experience following such an episode whilst studying for my PhD, which in no particular order involved me falling off a lot, bruising several ribs, ending up in a bush, ruining a not-exactly-cheap wristwatch (with added sentimental value; I bought it out of my first ever "proper" wages) and my rear red LED lamp, and being in intermittent agony for a couple of weeks afterwards. As this all happened whilst crossing the campus at York University, those familiar with the place will realise I was damned lucky not to end up in the lake.... :oops:
David
Chapeau mate! That's class...
I used to go out quite a lot for late night friday training rides after the pub, and almost every time fell off, must have left kilos of my skin over the roads of Newport back then. Me and two mates even set off for a touring weekend at midnight after a night of stella, which had some amusing moments trying to climb out of Bristol towards shepton mallet..
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