Still world record a year and a half later. Just discovered this game and played through it casually over the last few days. Loved the speed tech here. I've seen enough speedruns to think something seriously weird was going on when you went to the Training Ground. I was not disappointed!
Thanks. The movement is really tedious with a lot of mashing, and the boss patterns are very random which can just kill runs out of nowhere. But if you can suffer through that, the late game is really fun after you get Redire.