Home Team Profile Blog Twitter Sponsors The Girls Gallery DebRA Contact TEAM PROFILE of THE ICAP DebRA TEAM 2010 The ICAP DebRA TEAM would like to thank our Team Sponsors for their committed support                     Russ Lindsay.   I live in Hampton Court , married to Sally and have three beautiful children; Charlie 16, Gabriel 13 and Tilly who has just turned 2. I rode to Paris last year with the ICAP DebRA team so know how hard the 3 days are. We left at 7am on the Thursday morning through Kent to Dover on Day1 riding over 110 miles. Day 2 was torrential rain for 5 of the 8 hours' riding but thankfully the sun shone on Day 3 as we rode into Paris. We raised over £40,000 so thank you to all who supported us; this year we're going for £50,000.     Grant Bovey. My whole family think that I am mad - riding nearly 323 miles in 3 days, it seemed like such a good idea at the time. Joking apart, I can not think of a more deserving cause than DebRA. Every single pound donated is helping a fantastic charity.       Richard Hennah. Despite a good amount of training, ICAP DeBRA L2P Cycling Team (a team of five cyclists) are not expecting to be first to cross the Paris finishing line. However, we do anticipate finishing the three day, butt-gruelling race euphoric, exhausted and ready for a few large beers (and a good tiger balm rub down!)Thanks in advance for donating to this terrific cause and I'd also like to extend a very large thanks to my employer, ICAP for their generous sponsorship of the team.     Barry McGovern. Well here goes 300 plus miles for a great Charity!! I am nervously looking forward to it!. I live in Windsor and also have three wonderful children Kate 15 Jonno 19 and Jack 21 . The two boys are at Uni and Kate is about to start GCSE's. married to Julie who keeps us all motivated. Thanks to ICAP for sponsoring us all and for the additional lycra initiative! Wish us well and sponsor if you can !                   Catina Bernadis. I am a plastic surgeon working at St Thomas' hospital in London, and part of my work involves surgery on patients with EB. I most commonly operate on hand deformities, when the fingers are so contracted by scar tissue that they no longer work independently, releasing and skin grafting them. I also remove skin cancers that may develop. EB is a genetic disease and, in its worse form, causes ulceration covering most of the body which requires daily, painful dressings. Scarring from ulceration causes contractures which may involve the eyelids, neck, elbows, wrists, hands, knees, feet, and can result in severe deformities. Skin cancer may also develop. Yet despite the daily challenge that people with EB and their families face, I am constantly overwhelmed by the way those involved refuse to be defeated. The underlying collagen abnormality in EB cannot yet be treated, but some progress is being made. For example, the injection of fibroblasts has been used in some chronically ulcerated wounds which have healed within 2 weeks. Developments such as these may result in a reduction in chronic wounds, less scarring, fewer contractures and a reduced susceptibility to develop skin cancer. But a cure remains the goal. I was first told about the L2P ride by one of the Dermatologists a couple of years ago. Without really thinking about the miles (let alone the hills!) involved, I thought that it would be fun to cycle to Paris. After all, I commute to work daily on my pink, folding bike, and once cycled from London to Brighton! I now realise that the challenge will be a little greater than I had anticipated, but am looking forward to it enormously. I am very grateful to the ICAP team for welcoming me and thank you for any support that you are able to give to DebRA.'