I was wondering whether the dad did all that stuff for the son, or for himself?

Extreme ironing is an odd 'sport' where people carry an ironing board and iron to strange places (like the top of Mount Kilimanjaro) and then do some ironing. It is a bit of agimmick. The point I was making (badly) was that the ironing board is just an inanimate object that the climber takes with him for his own glory. I was kind of hoping that the son was not being used as just an object to push around a racecourse?

My bad for being a cynic !