I'm currently running a game, and found a glitch I'm not sure is generally allowed.

About 8 mins into the game there's an obstruction you have to move, which requires you to have collected a particular object earlier on, however once the obstruction is moved, if you then fail the game and start again (either by losing all your lives, or straight up aborting the game), its position is never reset, meaning that in all future runs you can skip the detour to collect this object, saving about 30s at a guess.

Is that a legit running technique? to spend 8 minutes doing prep work just to move this thing, triggering the bug, resetting and then starting timing?