Thank you for all the encouraging and helpful comments, so nice to see and read

SJCzar - that is a fabulous suggestion about the padded shorts. After you mentioned it, I thought, darn why hadn't I considered that!

Colby - I'll check out the belt you mentioned also on that link.

I got some decent pants today, I already have gloves, but am looking into some good base layers, and possibly those wrist guards mentioned at the beginning of the thread.

The plan is to go this coming weekend, so I'll be sure to let everyone know how much time (in seconds) that I managed to stay upright on the 1st day