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You may want to get a pair of These and use them for a while.
I was in a similar boat! I got halfway through this before life got in the way, but now I can swim pretty much as far as i want as long as I go slowly: https://www.macmillan.org.uk/assets/swim-training-plan-1m-beginner.pdf
Wear a swim cap and you won’t notice any hair issues, but you can buy swim shampoo or basically any sort of vitamin c spray to neutralize the chlorine.
Also, anticipating this concern in your future… I prefer goggles that sit on instead of in my eye socket, otherwise my eyes look about 60 years older than they are when I get out of the pool. I tried a bunch and landed on these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005UDHZ?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
I think the most anxiety provoking thing for me is sharing lanes - if you can’t go at a time when you can have a lane to yourself, it’s ok - just try to find a lane with only one person in it and ask if they will split it. Splitting is a lot easier than circle swimming (which you have to do if there are more than 2 people total in a lane) because you go entirely at your own pace - it’s just like having a narrower lane.
Also, check your local pools’ adult swim classes. I did a swimming for fitness class once which was cool.
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