Racer Bruce Lind, age 65, suffered a heart attack while doing yard work at home in Snohomish, Washington on Easter Sunday morning, underwent surgery to have a stent inserted in an artery about 1:30 p.m. the same day, checked himself out of the hospital 48 hours later and returned to work at Boeing mid-week.

Reached by cell phone, Lind told Roadracingworld.com he figured out he was having a heart attack due to intense pain in his chest, which felt like somebody was stabbing him with a knife. Lind asked his wife Edie to call 911, and was transported to a local hospital by ambulance.

Lind said that he plans to race his Yamaha TZ250 during the upcoming USBA weekend scheduled for April 20-21 at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah.

Lind, who has won motorcycle road races in six decades–the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s–and competed as an AMA Pro across nearly five decades, is featured in the April 2013 issue of Roadracing World & Motorcycle Technology magazine.