#include <cstdio>

using namespace std;
int maxi(int a,int b){
 if(a>b) return a;
  else return b;
}
int n,oo[100001],i,j,k;
long rez,a[100001];
int main(){

 freopen("oo.in","r",stdin);
 freopen("oo.out","w",stdout);
 scanf("%d",&n);
 for(i=0;i<n;++i)
  scanf("%d",&oo[i]);
 if(n==2) rez=oo[0]+oo[1];
 else
 for(k=0;k<3;k=(k+1)%n){
  a[k]=0;a[(k+1)%n]=0;
  a[(k+2)%n]=oo[(k+1)%n]+oo[(k+2)%n];
  for(i=(k+3)%n;i!=k;i=(i+1)%n)
   a[i]=maxi(a[(i-1+n)%n],a[(i-3+n)%n]+oo[(i-1+n)%n]+oo[i]);
   rez=maxi(rez,a[(k-1+n)%n]);
 }
 printf("%ld\n",rez);
 return 0;
}