When Ewa joined The Unseen Stage, she hoped it would pull her out of routine and give her a reason to focus on herself again. Since then, her preparation for L’Étape Poland has been anything but straightforward. Between running a mountain hut, working punishingly long…
The 2026 Giro d’Italia Women was rightly billed as one of the most demanding editions in recent memory. With nine stages, over 1,150 kilometres of racing, a brutal uphill time trial, the iconic Colle delle Finestre, and a route heavily weighted toward climbers, it promised…
Let’s say, arbitrarily, that the Tour Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes – the race formerly known as the Critérium du Dauphiné – is the start of preparations for the 2026 Tour de France. It isn’t, of course. Riders targeting the TdF yellow jersey have been preparing for it for months,…
When we first met Ewa, she described herself not as an athlete, but as someone who simply likes to “do things”: long mountain trails, thousand-kilometre bike trips across Poland, adventures powered more by curiosity than competition. The Unseen Stage was meant to push her into…
