If you are an experienced marathoner with a good training base, this 260 miles of recovery will happen soon. You are in excellent shape, have peaked and may find that you can run some great races. If you plan to race, cut down on your training mileage and recover fully from each one. If you have not fully recovered from the marathon and try to race, you may run excellent times, but your are courting serious injury. Keep setting goals and planning your training so that you can achieve those goals.
Progressions Listed below are several post marathon recovery programs.
These are only guides. Recovery rates are highly individual and only you can determine whether this program is too short. If soreness or fatigue lingers, back off to the previous week's schedule and give yourself time to heal. If you have persistent pain, you may have injured yourself in the marathon. Try another less stressful aerobic exercise such as bicycling or swimming for awhile.