Last night I strained my achilles at the very end of my last training run before a 15 mile race scheduled for tomorrow.

Immediately and throughout the night, I iced and elevated the sore tendon.  This morning it still was sore but as the afternoon has progressed it is feeling better.  However, the pain comes and goes .  One moment I am walking footloos and fancy free and the next moment I am in pain and limping like Verbal Kent from the Usual Suspects (before the big reveal that he is, in fact, Kiser Sosa).

My questions are three fold:

(1)  How do I know if it is torn (or partially torn) rather than merely strained?

(2)  Can I recover in time to run 15 miles tomorrow morning?  If so, what do I need to do?

(3)  Could I damage the tendon more if I run on a strained tendon?

Any thoughts and advise would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris