import sys import math import bisect from heapq import heapify, heappop, heappush from collections import deque, defaultdict, Counter from functools import lru_cache from itertools import accumulate, combinations, permutations, product sys.setrecursionlimit(1000000) MOD = 10 ** 9 + 7 MOD99 = 998244353 input = lambda: sys.stdin.readline().strip() NI = lambda: int(input()) NMI = lambda: map(int, input().split()) NLI = lambda: list(NMI()) SI = lambda: input() SMI = lambda: input().split() SLI = lambda: list(SMI()) EI = lambda m: [NLI() for _ in range(m)] def main(): N = NI() V = NLI() INF = 10**10 dp = [[-INF]*2 for _ in range(N+1)] dp[0][0] = 0 for i in range(1, N+1): v = V[i-1] dp[i][0] = max(dp[i][0], dp[i-1][0], dp[i-1][1]) dp[i][1] = max(dp[i][1], dp[i-1][0] + v) print(max(dp[N])) if __name__ == "__main__": main()