Weight will cost more lengths at longer distances, but a length is more important at 5f than it is at 10f.

This is purest bunk. There's no such thing as a 'more important' length.

The whole point is that it will be harder to get that length at 10f based on the fact that you carried the weight that much further. At 5f you have less time to make up the length (I guess this is what you are driving at when you put a premium on this 5f length) but at 10f you would be less likely to make up the length and progressively less likely to make up the length the further you go, based on tiring out from carrying the weight over time. So the proverbial 'length' we are talking about is of equal value at any distance, and the only adjustment for weight/distance is that the longer you run, the more 'lengths' it costs you (based on tiring out from carrying the weight).

This is the concept entirely, and if you got it, you couldn't possibly have written that awful sentence. Think it over. It makes more sense that anything else I've heard on the subject (Quirin, weight/class, etc.). The only thing I add to it is that I do not consider weight differences of less than 5 pounds. I guess I could call this the "HP 5 Pound Minimum" theory.

I won't be able to bat this around for a few days, but I think this qualifies as another Last Word anyway.

Go make money. HP