#include<bits/stdc++.h>
#define ll long long int
#define print(a) for (auto x : a) cout << x << " "; cout << endl
#define print_upto(a,n) for(int i=0;i<n;i++) cout<<a[i]<<" "; cout<<endl
#define take(x,n) for(int i=0;i<n;i++) cin>>x[i];
#define watch(x) cout << (#x) << " is " << (x) << "\n"
#define watch2(x,y) cout <<(#x)<<" is "<<(x)<<" and "<<(#y)<<" is "<<(y)<<"\n"
using namespace std;
ll a[1000008];
ll dp[1000008];
int main() {
ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
cin.tie(0);
cout.tie(0);
#ifndef ONLINE_JUDGE
freopen("input.txt", "r", stdin);
freopen("output.txt", "w", stdout);
freopen("error.txt" , "w" , stderr);
#endif
ll n;
cin >> n;
for (ll i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
cin >> a[i];
}
for (ll i = 1; i + 2 <= n; i++) {
dp[i] = 1;
if (a[i + 1] > a[i + 2] && dp[i - 1] == 0) {
dp[i + 1] = 1;
continue;
} else {
dp[i + 2] = 1;
i++;
}
}
if (dp[n - 2] == 0) {
dp[n - 1] = 1;
dp[n] = 1;
}
ll ans = 0;
for (ll i = 0; i <= n; i++) {
if (dp[i] == 1) {
ans += a[i];
}
}
cout << ans << "\n";
return 0;
}
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