How can I be more athletic?

Question

Now that the athletics and acrobatics skills have disappeared, is there a way to run faster or to jump higher in Skyrim?

Answer

There aren't very many (if any) ways to increase your speed permanently or in a traditional manner: looks like Bethesda scrapped that entirely. However, there are a few non-convential means:

Lycanthropy

If you want to run faster, contract lycanthropy. In beast form, you sprint much, much faster than normal.

Shouts

While not strictly allowing you to run faster or leap higher, there are a few shouts that accomplish nearly the same thing:

• Slow Time will let you—aptly—slow time to allow you to move normally within your frame of reference but much quicker in others.
• Whirlwind Spirit will push you towards places you couldn't normally go (like remote ledges)

Minimizing slowness

While not technically increasing speed, there are an awful lot of things that'll slow you down, so minimizing those would be a speed increase in many situations:

• The more weight you have, the slower you'll move. So if you want to maximize your speed, you'll want to carry less stuff.
• The Conditioning perk in the Path of Might will make it so heavy armor doesn't affect your speed
• Similarly, the Unhindered perk in the Path of Shadow will do the same for light armor

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