diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 68e4ff86c56293cba817b446367154c0dfd375c3..4eaca870caf8f2223a6279496d0764dcc69a95a4 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ default:
     paths:
       - results/
       - datasets/
+      - sim_output/
       - data
         #    exclude:
         #      - .git/
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ get_data:
     - git clone https://eicweb.phy.anl.gov/EIC/datasets.git datasets
     - ln -s datasets/data
     - mkdir -p results
+    - mkdir -p sim_output
 
 #generate_config:
 #  stage: ci_gen
@@ -87,6 +89,14 @@ track_test_1_dummy_test:
     - bash trackers/dummy_test.sh
   allow_failure: true
 
+simple_tracking_test:
+  stage: benchmarks
+  tags:
+    - sodium
+  script:
+    - root -b -q trackers/simple_tracking.cxx+
+  allow_failure: true
+
 
 deploy_results:
   stage: deploy
diff --git a/trackers/simple_tracking.cxx b/trackers/simple_tracking.cxx
index d9c465b6c5fbfd792e84da7a6ed1c21aa1e822aa..047ebb2f02a447648eccced1dc50d6b4be3d8278 100644
--- a/trackers/simple_tracking.cxx
+++ b/trackers/simple_tracking.cxx
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ R__LOAD_LIBRARY(libDDG4IO.so)
 //#include "lcio2/TrackerRawDataData.h"
 //#include "lcio2/TrackerRawData.h"
 
-void simple_tracking(const char* fname = "data/roman_pot_out.root"){
+void simple_tracking(const char* fname = "sim_output/roman_pot_out.root"){
 
   ROOT::EnableImplicitMT(); // Tell ROOT you want to go parallel
   //using namespace lcio2;