diff --git a/.github/workflows/osrm-backend.yml b/.github/workflows/osrm-backend.yml
index 3dceefd32..4943d6de3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/osrm-backend.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/osrm-backend.yml
@@ -640,13 +640,16 @@ jobs:
           key: v1-conan-benchmarks-${{ github.sha }}
           restore-keys: |
             v1-conan-benchmarks-
-      - run: pip install locust
+      - name: Prepare data
+        run: | 
+          wget http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/germany/berlin-latest.osm.pbf -O ~/data.osm.pbf
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: python3 -m pip install "conan<2.0.0" "requests==2.31.0" "locust==2.28.0"
       - name: Checkout PR Branch
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           ref: ${{ github.head_ref }}
           path: pr
-      - run: python3 -m pip install "conan<2.0.0" "requests==2.31.0"
       - name: Build PR Branch
         run: |
           mkdir -p pr/build
diff --git a/scripts/ci/run_benchmarks.sh b/scripts/ci/run_benchmarks.sh
index 3103c6b28..1cdd76a66 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/run_benchmarks.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci/run_benchmarks.sh
@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ function run_benchmarks_for_folder {
     # ./$BENCHMARKS_FOLDER/rtree-bench "./$FOLDER/test/data/monaco.osrm.ramIndex" "./$FOLDER/test/data/monaco.osrm.fileIndex" "./$FOLDER/test/data/monaco.osrm.nbg_nodes" > "$RESULTS_FOLDER/rtree.bench"
 
     BINARIES_FOLDER="$FOLDER/build"
-    wget http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/germany/berlin-latest.osm.pbf
     echo "PWD: $FOLDER"
-    $BINARIES_FOLDER/osrm-extract -p $FOLDER/profiles/car.lua $FOLDER/berlin-latest.osm.pbf
-    $BINARIES_FOLDER/osrm-partition $FOLDER/berlin-latest.osrm
-    $BINARIES_FOLDER/osrm-customize $FOLDER/berlin-latest.osrm
-    $BINARIES_FOLDER/osrm-routed --algorithm mld $FOLDER/berlin-latest.osrm &
+    cp ~/data.osm.pbf $FOLDER
+    $BINARIES_FOLDER/osrm-extract -p $FOLDER/profiles/car.lua $FOLDER/data.osm.pbf
+    $BINARIES_FOLDER/osrm-partition $FOLDER/data.osrm
+    $BINARIES_FOLDER/osrm-customize $FOLDER/data.osrm
+    $BINARIES_FOLDER/osrm-routed --algorithm mld $FOLDER/data.osrm &
     OSRM_ROUTED_PID=$!
 
     # TODO: save results