A FREE GUIDE FROM OPUS BIOLOGICAL
The 14-Day Post-Marathon Recovery Guide
What to do, when to worry, and when to run again, from the clinical team behind elite sport.
Finishing a marathon is a systemic event. Your body is not simply tired, it is in a coordinated repair response that will continue for two to three weeks, even when you feel fine on the surface.
What you do in the next fourteen days determines whether you finish the season stronger, or whether you spend the summer in a clinic.
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Inside The Guide
6 short sections covering everything you need in the next fortnight.
- A day-by-day recovery timeline for the first two weeks
- The red flags that mean you should get assessed, not rested
- When you can run again – and how to come back without re-injury
- The four most common post-marathon mistakes we treat in clinic
Why we wrote this
Every May, our clinic sees a predictable wave of post-marathon injuries. They are rarely the catastrophic ones.
Most are the runner who felt good on day four, went for a run, and re-injured tissue that was still actively repairing. That injury then follows them into June and July, often costing them the rest of their running season.
This guide is the clinical thinking we apply with those runners, written down. It is based on what we do in elite sport, measured recovery, red-flag screening, objective return-to-play markers, translated for amateur runners who do not have access to that infrastructure. It is written by our Lead Physiotherapist Ian Gilham and our Founder Dr David Porter, formerly First Team Doctor at Chelsea FC.
It is free because the cost of a preventable post-marathon injury is far higher than the cost of a download.
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The guide is free. It takes 10 minutes to read,
and could save you six months of recovery.
Dr. David Porter
Dr. David Porter is an internationally renowned senior football and sports medicine physician specialising in all aspects of orthobiologics. David is one of the Founding Directors of Opus and is responsible for overseeing the clinical team and developing our stem cell service. David qualified from University College London Medical School and following training in emergency and intensive care medicine he was appointed to the post of Club Doctor at Chelsea FC in 2011 overseeing the care of academy and reserve team players.
Ian Gilham
Ian is our Lead Physiotherapist here at Opus. Since qualifying in 2013, Ian has expansive experience working with clients across a variety of industries ranging from elite sport, film and music. With a particular interest in strength and conditioning, Ian focuses his approach on assisting his patients in achieving their goals through a combined treatment approach with the end goal of them staying invested in their own long term physical health management beyond their recovery.
About Opus Biological
Opus Biological is a multidisciplinary sports medicine and performance health clinic in Marylebone, London.
Our team combines physiotherapy, sports and exercise medicine, regenerative medicine (including PRP and mesenchymal stem cell therapy), reformer Pilates, performance psychology, and nutrition under one roof.
We treat patients on the biopsychosocial model — an injury is rarely just a tissue problem. It sits inside sleep, stress, loading, confidence
