JK1M: Hiking at the FRIM

Yesterday was the 4th time we meet up for the weekly JK1M Wangsa Maju group meetup. This time the place was Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM) which located at Kepong.

We met up near the mosque at about 7 am but we only started the hiking 30 minutes after that. At first we just walk up to some sort like gravel road. The road is quite big and I think it could fit a car going through it. Even though it was quite easy, for me it's quite challenging because the gradient it quite steep and we climbed up until 150 feet.

Shameless  successful selfie

Then, the hiking became more challenging when we took the turn and climbing towards the canopy walk. It's was tougher than Bukit Gasing which I accustomed to. I think the climb is slightly higher and definitely more challenging than Bukit Gasing.

Group picture before the hardest part

But the hardest part was not the climbing but rather getting down from the top. At this time, I started to feel pains on both of my right ankle and right knee. I managed to get down safely at last thanks to the coach and Arep that has been guiding and helping me. Needless to say, I was to last one getting down the hill. There was a waterfall waiting for us at the end of the hiking track.

Canopy walkway entrance

Next, we need to walk along the forest road that we've been on when we first started and we walked for almost one hour until we're back at the starting point. We couldn't walk any faster because everyone on the last group has some sort of pain on our legs. From the marathon app that I used, I burned approximately 1236 kcal in a 5.30 km hiking which took me 2 hours and 21 minutes to complete.

Group picture after completed the hike

Then the weekly weigh-in session. Maybe because of the tiring hike but I lost quite a lot this week. I lost 2.5kg which brings my current weight to 130.6 kg. Not bad compared to last week. Maybe because I did a weight training 2 times and also I ate little less last week. Anyway I so glads with the results. Hopefully I could lose the same amount on the next weigh-in.

At the picnic site

Picnic

After that we had a nice picnic near the waterfall area. Overall it was a very nice experience and the scenery in FRIM is so nice with all those big trees. Next time, I promise I will come back here with my friend and just chill, rent a bike and enjoy all the scenery.