Grats on the main story finish, and I think you should get there faster, if you got rid of the block on the beach behind the temple that is.
As far as Din's Fire, spamming Nayru's Love and using potions is pretty much the only way across the spike beds, but once your out of magic, face the opposite way of where you want to go and let the spike damage push you backwards untill you get down to a few hearts, then use the potion. There's no boots in the game to negate or even reduce the damage from the spikes.
And as far as your time, don't worry, it took me longer than that to finish the main story, and your in for a challenge when you go into the temple. >D
Thanks man, yeah the lost part of the lost seas was a bit confusing, i kinda just held down the direction keys and randomly found my way through, pretty lucky. Temple of Cole so far is fantastic fun, stuck in a room now but i'll figure it out, just gotta find out how to step across the room. Thanks for the vids on youtube, helped me find a couple of items i missed out on (didn't have the golden sword when i beat ganon xD)


