Nearing the roof on Milktoast (5.10d)

This is me approaching the crux roof on Milktoast (5.10d) at 5.8 crag in Rumney. I did not know it at the time, but the route is intended to go left around the roof, but I decided to go through it, which turned out to be pretty hard. I have yet to redpoint it, but going to the left feels like cheating to me.