Breakfast with Bob Kona 2019: Joe Skipper

Joe Skipper tells Bob Babbitt how he hopes to improve on last year's seventh place finish in Kona.

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Joe Skipper is coming off a seventh place finish in Kona in 2018, but that is a tad misleading. At the end of the day, there was only 2 minutes and 37 seconds separating Timothy O’Donnell, Braden Currie, Joe Skipper, and Matt Russell as they raced along the Queen Highway for fourth place. In this chat with Bob Babbitt, Skipper shares how he hopes to improve on his performance in this year’s race.

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