diff --git a/runs/run1000.sh b/runs/run1000.sh
index 5d0b7dc..c04583b 100644
--- a/runs/run1000.sh
+++ b/runs/run1000.sh
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ python -m nanochat.report reset
 curl -L -o $NANOCHAT_BASE_DIR/identity_conversations.jsonl https://karpathy-public.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/identity_conversations.jsonl
 
 # train tokenizer on ~4B characters and kick off download of the rest for pretraining
-python -m nanochat.dataset -n 16
+python -m nanochat.dataset -n 21
 # start downloading the rest of the shards for a total of 1200 (see below why 1200)
 python -m nanochat.dataset -n 1200 &
 # todo: download the rest of it
diff --git a/runs/runcpu.sh b/runs/runcpu.sh
index da8f6d1..abe3f6c 100755
--- a/runs/runcpu.sh
+++ b/runs/runcpu.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ if [ -z "$WANDB_RUN" ]; then
 fi
 
 # train tokenizer on ~2B characters (~34 seconds on my MacBook Pro M3 Max)
-python -m nanochat.dataset -n 8
+python -m nanochat.dataset -n 11
 python -m scripts.tok_train --max-chars=2000000000
 python -m scripts.tok_eval
 
diff --git a/runs/speedrun.sh b/runs/speedrun.sh
index ef4fa00..3e2e21e 100644
--- a/runs/speedrun.sh
+++ b/runs/speedrun.sh
@@ -50,10 +50,11 @@ python -m nanochat.report reset
 
 # Download the first ~2B characters of pretraining dataset
 # look at dev/repackage_data_reference.py for details on how this data was prepared
-# each data shard is ~250M chars
-# so we download 2e9 / 250e6 = 8 data shards at this point
-# each shard is ~100MB of text (compressed), so this is about ~800MB of data on disk
-python -m nanochat.dataset -n 8
+# each data shard is ~250M chars, but due to the `doc_cap` only ~200M chars are used.
+# The last shard is considered to be eval, so we download 2e9 / 200e6 + 1 = 11 data
+# shards at this point
+# each shard is ~90MB of text (compressed), so this is about ~1GB of data on disk
+python -m nanochat.dataset -n 11
 # Immediately also kick off downloading more shards in the background while tokenizer trains
 # See comment below for why 370 is the right number here
 python -m nanochat.dataset -n 370 &