Nuttelman Wins Stage 1!!

Well folks, it's official. Charles "Charlie" Nuttelman of Boulder, Colorado, has won the first stage of the Tour d'Alaska. "I didn't think I could do it but I just put my head down and won." Nuttelman, sponsored by B.O.B. Bike Trailers, reached a maximum speed of a blistering 17 miles per hour en route to Wasilla from Anchorage, completing the 60-mile stage in a scorching 6 hours. "I got out to a great start, way ahead of the pack. They started closing in on me so I strategically hit a bump sideways such that a bunch of items from my B.O.B. trailer fell out. Apples, bananas, tent stakes and poles, sleeping bags, bike tools and spare parts, clothes, and my iPod all went flying out behind me, taking out 99% of the following pack," says Nuttelman. "I think some guy named Vance or Vince or Lance, last name Armstrong or something, was able to keep up with me for a while but then I put the hammer down on that last stretch into Wasilla. Someone said that Mr. Armstrong has won some big race over in France a few times, but I didn't let that intimidate me."

Nuttelman, pictured above and who had perfect form during the first stage, got so far ahead of Armstrong that he even had time to stop for Coffee in Eagle River and IHOP in Wasilla en route to the stage's end in Houston, AK. The second stage of the Tour d'Alaska will head 100 miles from Houston to somewhere between Talkeetna and Denali National Park, and stage 3 will end in Denali National Park on Thursday night.