RAPHA x BIKEGALS UNITED

Just a couple of weeks after getting back from NYC (and losing the goddamn jetlag) i took part of a really cool event – Rapha Women100. On Sunday,  July 26, thousands of women around the world took part of a 100 km bike ride to celebrate the bike culture and women being awesome and inspiring!

Me & 12 other ladies + a guy + a dog rode our bikes from Tallinn to Kaberneeme and back (105 km all together).

If you’re fluent in Estonian go check out the article i wrote to Hooligan Hamlet about the whole experiment.

To others, long story short: it was the most epic and challenging experiences ever. I had no training, hadn’t ridden my bike since 2014 (it’s a city bike), had never ridden a sport’s bike before, was sure i’d quite and would run screaming and crying already after 40 km… But hey, i freaking did it! Next challenge please!

Now i really want to sell my city bike and change it for a real one (sports or fix). Any recommendations?

Big thanks to Jooks, Bikegals United & Rapha for putting this insanely cool event together!

Photos by Kristina Zoo, Martin Voltri & Elisa-Johanna Udde.

SEMI-ZOE

My head’s in Tallinn (yes, head!), but my heart is still in New York. Me and my head, we keep trying to enjoy the semi-summer that our peculiar Estonian climate seems to sometimes allow. And this year, well, it’s semi-everything. Semi-warm, semi-cold, semi-vacational, semi-motivational- as if i myself would be the semi version of .. hmm.. ME?

So, yes i can definitely say my head’s wondering the streets of Tallinn and the fields and forest of Estonia and pushes all sorts of buttons in the studio while working on an album… But my heart sits by the Hudson, has a bagel with cream-cheese for breakfast and washes it down with another amusing New Yorker article.

Pardon, my manners are usually a bit better! At least i like to think they are…

The wondering semi-me-head belongs to an 86-year release, who is dangerously overflowed by music and moments. And as you probably already noticed – clichés!

My name is Anneliis, but please do call me Zoe.

This first post of (hopefully) many yet to come is about welcoming you to this very eclectic head of mine and not about trying to bore you with all the  bits and pieces (or beats) that Zoe’s made of. Instead have a little taste of Marchel Christ‘s still-shots magic and listen to Thundercat‘s “Them Changes” released under Brainfeeder on June 18.

Talk soon!