diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 03d11536b1f..bd9c0b64eb2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ concurrency:
 env:
   CI_FAILFAST_TEST_LEAVE_DANGLING: 1  # GHA does not care about dangling processes and setting this variable avoids killing the CI script itself on error
   MAKEJOBS: '-j10'
+  REPO_USE_CIRRUS_RUNNERS: 'bitcoin/bitcoin' # Use cirrus runners and cache for this repo, instead of falling back to the slow GHA runners
 
 defaults:
   run: