diff --git a/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml b/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml
index 5daf5c24d9..d7f337bd75 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   run-cri-containerd:
-    # TODO: Transition to free runner (see #9940).
-    if: false
     strategy:
       # We can set this to true whenever we're 100% sure that
       # the all the tests are not flaky, otherwise we'll fail
@@ -25,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         containerd_version: ['lts', 'active']
         vmm: ['clh', 'dragonball', 'qemu', 'stratovirt', 'cloud-hypervisor', 'qemu-runtime-rs']
-    runs-on: garm-ubuntu-2204-smaller
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     env:
       CONTAINERD_VERSION: ${{ matrix.containerd_version }}
       GOPATH: ${{ github.workspace }}