On take off and in flight, the wings and the canard together must lift the total load. It may be at 2100 pounds, it may be at 1800 or way down at 1600 pounds. Again this is personal to your craftsmanship. If you are considering long range, over-gross operations in your Long, be sure to provide your very best flight test data pertinent to this problem in your owner's handbook. It's not why.
Mountain climbers are for the most part forced to climb mountains others have already climbed.
In a Long EZ, you have countless originals to climb.