Been thinking about this one for awhile...was nothing like it in the BBB or Street Magic, so I decided to make one of my own.

Fast Pace

Cost: .25 per level

This power allows an adept to move quicker than normal. Each level of Fast Pace increases the adept's base meters per Combat Round by 2. Additionally, each level adds a +1 dice pool modifier to all Running tests.

This makes senes, especially for Athlete types, but I don't think I'd ever use it myself. Should it have a cap though? +48m per turn seems excessive....

It has a cap. In order to get +48m you'd need 24 levels of this power. That would require a magic rating of 24, and using 6 of them for this power.
With a magic rating of 6, you can't have any powers higher than rating 6, so that's spending 1.5 power points to get +12m/turn.

Theres already a version of this power in existence; Improved Ability -- Running

But I'll bite;
The cost is plane too cheap. It should be .5 /level with a +1 to base speed and a +1 to running tests. And even thats a little iffy.

It's the running equivalent to Great Leap. I like it. I actually implemented something similar for an NPC adept. My version only benefits sprinting, though. .5 PP per level. Add 2 dice per level to all sprinting rolls and increase the number of meters per hit by the level.

It'd probably need some balancing if I were to open it up to players.

...man, and I wanted to go Faster than a Speeding Vespa...

Well, when I was writing the power I was balancing it against the other powers in the BBB and Street Magic, specifically Great Leap, Iron Lungs, and Freefall. They all also fall on that .25 per level mark...

Well, 6 levels of this power would make you almost as fast as a speeding Dodge Scoot while sprinting (assuming you are an excellent runner, with 12 total dice to sprint naturally). But that seems okay to me. An athlete adept (presumably with other complementary powers) that can catch up to a slowish vehicle on foot seems pretty cool to me.

That was what I was thinking when I wrote the power up....there is all this talk about the Athlete's Way in the BBB and Street Magic, but there is no power for sprinting athletes besides Improved Ability (Sprinting). Jumping has two powers for it (Great Leap and Improved Ability (Gymnastics)) so why can't running? Hence me making this power.

I would specify that the bonus dice from the power only benefit sprinting tests, rather than all running tests, though.

Nah, I don't think so...because what about long distance running? Why shouldn't the power work for that as well. Running only has a few Specializations (Sprinting, Long Distance, Urban, Wilderness) and I can't see the power only being restricted to Sprinting. This power combined with the secndary effect of Iron Lungs would make an awesome Long Distance running adept.

I imagine this adept on Shadowruns just pelting down the road towards a corp compound, Great Leaping the front gates, running past the shooting guards, around the compound a few times, up a floor, through a window. He then sprints around the inside of the compound, dodging bullets and knocking over personnel. He finally gets to the lab he's supposed to, picks up a data chip and leaves the way he came. He outruns all the security guards, and has a brief chase with the Sec-Citymaster before jumping away and running through the trees. No security guards or even cameras manage to ID him, as he was running too fast.

The problem there is that now you have a power that is in all ways better than Improved Ability (Running). It does the same stuff and more. Whereas Great Leap, the nearest equivalent to your power, only works for a specific use of Gymnastics (jumping), but, to compensate, has a side benefit. It's more an issue of balancing cost and effect of powers.

Yeah, after thinking about it, I do have to agree that the power should only effect Sprinting and not Running as a whole.

Actually, I am starting to rethink that....there are already powers that break the balance (if you set the balance by Improved Ability). Look at Enhanced Perception...it does the same thing as Improved Ability (Perception) for the same price, but also adds the extra dice to Assensing tests as well.....