RowingChat welcomes Graham Benton – the self-confessed “Erg Daddy”. Graham came to rowing via being a champion on the Concept2 and has multiple UK and World medals and world best times to his credit.
Listen to RowingChat with Graham Benton on SoundCloud
Timestamps to the show
01:00 Introduction and background in rowing
03:00 Fastest erg time 5:42.5 nearly beating Matthew Pinsent
04:00 Getting recruited to Tideway Scullers under Bill Barry as a coach
10:00 World Class Start talent ID programme under Peter Shakespeare
15:00 Henley final losing by 3 feet. Graham has been in 3 HRR finals losing by a total of 10 feet.
18:00 I love rowing and winning. When you’re good at something it’s hard to walk away. A poison chalice.
19:00 Eddie Fletcher is my indoor rowing scientist coach. He makes me confident in what I do. It’s about layering speed on speed. Giving me the proof points that I can do it.
21:00 Training as an older athlete – less is more. In a race, the cox can talk over the demons in your head.
28:00 I’m working on now is using the rate more. My big scores were high 20s / low 30s. Now for 10k I work on 34-36 stroke rate.
31:00 The display I choose is the average meters to first / second place in a race [C2 race format]. I row a flat race profile, as simple as possible
34:00 My sprint technique on the C2
39:00 You may be surprised but I stop during a lot of training sessions, never in a race. I try to assess the value of what I’ve done.
44:00 Rowing with Bradley Wiggins
50:00 How to improve your erg score.
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