diff --git a/configs/mitchish65.yaml b/configs/mitchish65.yaml
index 22f467369..55e3198b4 100644
--- a/configs/mitchish65.yaml
+++ b/configs/mitchish65.yaml
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ max_grad_norm_ratio: null
 speed_monitor:
   window_size: 20
 
-eval_interval: ${save_interval}
+eval_interval: 1000
 eval_subset_num_batches: -1
 device_eval_batch_size: ${device_train_microbatch_size}
 evaluators: