diff --git a/.github/workflows/asv_pr.yml b/.github/workflows/asv_pr.yml
index d4627e14c..81d1fcb28 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/asv_pr.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/asv_pr.yml
@@ -22,8 +22,11 @@ jobs:
 
     - run: echo "REGEX=benchmarks/asv.conf.json" >> $GITHUB_ENV
 
-    - name: Checkout repository
+    - name: Checkout repository, set upstream
       uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      run: |
+        git remote add upstream ${{ github.repository }}"
+        git fetch upstream
 
     - name: Set up Python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
@@ -41,8 +44,6 @@ jobs:
         # extracting the regex, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/36798723
         REGEX=$(echo "$COMMENT" | sed -n "s/^.*-b\s*\(\S*\).*$/\1/p")
         asv check -E existing
-        git remote add upstream ${{ env.TARGET_REPO }}
-        git fetch upstream
         asv machine --yes
         asv continuous -f 1.1 -b $REGEX upstream/main HEAD
         echo 'BENCH_OUTPUT<<EOF' >> $GITHUB_ENV